Statistical Centre of Iran


The Statistical Centre of Iran is the main organisation for statistics in Iran. It is administered and funded by the Government of Iran.
SCI was established in 1965 by legislation from the National Consultative Assembly.

National Population Censuses

SCI is the national body in charge of planning, performing and publishing national statistics on population and housing. The first nation-wide status belongs to 1955. Since then, SCI has run eight national statistics programmes, including:
During 2004-2007, the Statistical Centre of Iran was selected as a member of the UN Statistical Commission. It was also selected as a member in the Governing Council of Statistical Institution for Asia and the Pacific affiliated to ESCAP during 2005-2010.

Website

In the first half of 2020 the website amar.org.ir was one of the most popular and reliable sources in Persian and Southern Min Wikipedia.