I'm from Iran, and after watching this video, you've earned a great deal of respect from me. Your content is not only extremely accurate but also unbiased and thoroughly researched, which honestly surprised me. I now feel confident in trusting the content of your other videos as well, knowing they are truthful and reliable. As for the $950 deposited for every baby, that program is no longer in effect, but they are exploring other methods. Thank you for your excellent content!
Something else that is ignored as a contributor to low birth rates is Contract Jobs. If you are working on say a 3 yr contract you are still not feeling financially secure. However well the job pays you are still uncertain about the future so you postpone starting a family or having kids.
More broadly, if you make life crappy and/or expensive enough, people don't have kids. Life is not great in Iran, nor in many other places. What's interesting in Iran is that it's a theocracy and the religion wants more kids, yet people still don't have kids. It's similar to how, in Europe, some of the lowest birth rates are in places that are majority Catholic, despite the fact that birth control is not approved by the church. It's interesting how widespread is the global decline in fertility.
@@Marek21SK 😅In my country it's considered short but ofcourse it's a developing country so the 1 yr contracts are not here yet,, I guess it will get worse
In Iran almost no one has a 401k or any retirement fund. It's the culture for the children to provide for their parents after retirement. The aging population will not suffer without pensions. Their children will.
Well how does saving and investing work in Iran ? I heard some members of the Taliban in Afghanistan hold opium as an asset that grows in value even thou it's officially banned lol
Romania had enforced pro-natalist policies under Chaushesku that produced cohorts of unwanted children and indirectly fueled the most violent communist regime overthrow in Eastern Europe. The fact that the Islamic regime in Iran is still holding strong on power could be explained by the rapidly aging population and the open borders allowing for emigration (of mostly young people). All this defuses any potential for organized mass rebellion potential -- aging population is far less conducive to revolutionary acts and prefer to settle down and carry on.
Well, are you happy now? Romania will lose 50% of its population by the end of the century, and Arabs and Africans will be brought in to support the old people. Much better, right?
Same in India, people got educated and worked on family planning, but they never got rich or hopeful for future prospects. Millennials and Genz are only having a single kid cause it's too damn expensive to raise another one, government doesn't give a fuck cause the biggest voter base will be old people, so who cares about youth not having children, as long as they can keep getting votes from elderly
I am so glad to see a video by you on Iran again! As an Iranian-American, it's so hard to get non-biased information about Iranian government actions from either sides, thank u so much!
Iranians abroad have even lower fertility rates. In Austria Iranian immigrants have fertility rates similar to those of Japan. While some other immigrant communities, even European, have higher than those in their home countries, Romanians and Macedonians even having them at replacement level!
Probably because most of those immigrants that fled the country after the Shah was deposed happened to be more wealthy, more educated, etc. So you have a community that is more prone to low birth rate; compared to other immigrants that are low-skilled, low paid workers, who are more likely to have more than 2 per family
The difference in mindset perhaps. Some leave to have better opportunities for their current and future families while others left simply due to familial pressure or disagreement with the government policies.
Optimism is biggest indicator of a nation's fertility after economics. Swiss RR fell during WW2 even though their economy was pretty good and they weren't involved in pitch battles. EDIT: This is among pluralistic countries not among countries were state has light to heavy influence of births.
take Israel for example, the birth rate is around 3. on the flip side there is the quiet after the storm, where the "baby boom" should happen, so not sure which effect is in play here.
African countries like Niger are far away from promising, optimistic and economically transcendent. At the same time they have the highest birthrate in the planet, same can be said about all the neighbors of that zone. Sexual desire and "lack of shame" to both date and impregnate someone is one of the biggest factors contributing to this rise in birth rate. It seems that tribalism, and the lack of social norms related to the western model of productivity make people less lazy and skeptical when it comes to having a children. This is all culture, making it a big factor. In many undeveloped countries, people want to "keep their bloodline alive". In modernized countries the individual matters all the time, and its suffering should not be passed upon others (especially a family member like a son/daughter), so having a children is one of the last options one has to plan their lives with.
Doesn't mesh with the fact that the highest birth rates happen among the poor, who can scarcely afford to buy homes. Or with the fact that the rich also don't have many kids, despite owning several homes. Or take the case of Japan, where birth rates are rock bottom despite houses LOSING value over there. You can even have a house for free there if you want, but still they have no kids. This has never been an affordability issue, that's just the story people tell everyone to moan more.
Not only that, but time is an important factor as well. When you have barely time for your self, you do not really have time to raise a child. Both parents work today. And their life is pretty much sleep, eat, work rinse repeat. Adding a kid to such conditions, only make it worse. As well as people are so well educated today. Like me, i wont get a child until i have proper finances. Simply cause im not egoistic enough to bring a child to this world, unless i can give the child what it needs. The stupid uneducated, get lots of kids. If you want educated people to have kids. You must have the essentials in order.
Modernity coupled with poor economy is why Iran birth rates are declining. It is a very modern country with many young, talented people with no prospects. This is why birth rates are declining.
Typically not having prospects makes people want to procreate because there's nothing else to do and nothing else to hope for. But if you have careers and plans and grander visions, kids can kinda be secondary, to be deferred into your 30s and 40s
What? Maybe that's why developed countries have a low birth rate? And those who have children are mostly migrants, like in France, for example, the French have 0 or 1 child, and Arabs and Africans have 3-5? It's the same in Sweden. It's not about economics, but about culture.
Don't forget the Islamic regime's new policy of opening the floodgate of millions and millions of mostly illiterate and impoverished migrants from Afghanistan. They are going to become the majority of the population in the foreseeable future.
Restricting access to contraceptives to increase birth rates sounds about as band-aid measure as "improving workers' standards" to increase "stability".
They forget that people can order contraceptives and abortion medicine via Internet. And even have no xes. I am Single by Choice. But if I was in a relationship, and had no access to contraceptives and abortion, I wouldn't risk having xes.
I lived in Tehran as a kid, one of the best years of my youth. I spent days exploring the city, parks, getting baguettes, and every other form of delightful treats. One day ❤
I grew up close to Iranian Americans and I can say for a fact most of them didn't have kids and if they did it was 1. Most had their parents leave Iran during the revolution.
@@MosesPaulShelest All the rich countries have screwed up birth rates , also I could be wrong but I don't think Iran is that poor but it ain't that rich either
@@cryptocsguy9282 It’s not just rich countries. Practically every country on earth across all continents is seeing declining birthrates, even Africa (albeit nowhere near to the same extent).
It's more about education. Countries like Somalia, Niger and Afghanistan still have very high birth rates. Iranians have became educated, hence why their birth rate is dropping.
Im australian but a few of my good friends are from iran. Many of the young proffessionals in australia, especially engineers of all types, civil, chemical and electrical. Many doctors and dentists are here and my sister inlaw is an architect who knows of a few in the field. The ones i know have all sponsored other iranian young proffessionals or just family and many mechanics around the place. So im pretty sure the same has happened in all western countries and thats the reason for no young people left in iran. Also 90% of the iranian expats had an arranged marriage organised so once their future partner had set themselves up, they sponsored their partner
The biggest factor in the decline in birth rates in Iran is not the economy (although it plays a part), it's the liberalisation and secularisation of the Persians. Interestingly, the ethnic minorities of Iran particularly the Kurds, Baloch and Arabs are the only "Iranians" that are having 4+ kids. They are also poorer than the Persians!
All factors matter, and you can't single out secularization or any other factor for this. It's a sctructural shift of the culture coupled with countless more disincetives for procreation. In a way, even religious mores can play a role diminishing fertility since a youth who cares for his parents (out of a religious duty) can't afford to raise a family on his own, and he can't do it because he must provide for his elderly parents first.
It is fascinating because of it being a jihadist sharia law state. This should NOT have happened to them. Especially considering how poor they are. Hard to explain in many ways.
Thank you so much for this video; I was excited to see you cover a topic about my country, and the historical picture you paint is very interesting. One minor correction: the population control policies after war did include instructions for number of children, although it didn't mandate it. I clearly remember signs in the streets of Tehran, saying that one child is good and two is enough. Also, an important factor contributing indirectly but strongly to low fertility is the mandatory military service for boys only. This has been in place for about a century now. At the age of 18, when people finish high school and take the national entrance exam for universities, boys who are not admitted must go to military service, which lasts two years. They are much less likely than girls of their age to continue education after finishing the military service. This contributes to the higher ratio of girls to boys at higher education, which you did mentioned, but also to higher fertility of men. The mandatory military service eventually contributes to disparity in access to education, job opportunities and social class between men and women in the same age group and social cohort, which makes it harder for men to marry. Of course, this doesn't mean that good old fashioned patriarchy is going away!
If you dont mind have a few questions are you a muslim? Is Iran still a Islamic state? Do people still think about killing infidels?is the child marriage still a law which is allowed? Are your own people safe from government when spoken against them?are Election valid? Is the country radicalized like afganistan?
@@Blah888Answers: -Iran is still officially an Islamic state. -People do not think about “killing infidels”. This is something only in the mind of Fox News. -You would be very surprised by how much opposition exists, and candidates favored by the government often lose in elections. There is an argument to be made that their elections might be more democratic than US elections. -The country used to be radicalized in the 1980s when they were in a major war against Iraq. It’s not radicalized any more. Iran is not like the cartoonish caricature presented by Western, especially American, media.
how do you not only research all this stuff so quickly, but also make it all into videos? you're insane. I can't even keep up and all I do is watch em in my skivvies
As an American who watched the 1979 embassy takover on TV, I had a pretty low resolution view of the Iranian regime. Its interesting that the family planning policies were fairly enlightened, stressing autonomy for couples rather than draconian limits, keeping contraception legal, and so on. Thank you for a well researched view inside a country we rarely ever hear about in the West except for wars.
Hey, Can you make a common video about why so many countries implemented family planning and population control policies in 1970s-80s, not just the One child policy in China but also various '2 child policies' in countries like Iran, India, etc. And looking at the projections what impact these policies had and how they can deal with it!
Because there was rapid population growth after WWII and Neo-Malthusian ideas were trendy back then. Organizations like the UN and World Bank pushed for family planning, believing that controlling population growth would help economic development. Of course many developing countries just accepted that wholesale and rushed to implement the policies they advised. It's like the idea with climate change and how it's pushed by different world bodies and countries today although that I think is much more credible and real then overpopulation fear ever was.
Because they were suffering from overpopulation japan had the same problem in the early 20th century so it sent migrants to many countries in the americas
I'm from Iran 🇮🇷 borne 1985 my wife 1987, we have infertility problem, we are trying to get a child for 11 years and start the infertility treatment, from 2020 the government give us 30% of the infertility treatment we pay, after 12 years of marriage we still don't have a child😔 The government is bringing afghan people to replace Iranian people who are leaving Iran because of economic problems
As somebody who took a lot of development economics classes, family planning and sending girls to school are the best solutions to world hunger and poverty in general. It is the one primary difference between rich and poor countries. Not resources!
It's also the fastest way to a declining birth rate. It's very odd living today and seeing that all our well intentioned choices are leading to problems we didn't foresee and can no longer avoid
An incredibly detailed and interesting exploration of the different ways people live, how these shape us, and how this contributes to declining birth rates, exemplified through the case of Iran.
In Iran, I think that 9 years old as ‘an adult’ is most likely due to 1slamic Law, Shar1a Law, so if their ‘prophet’ MoHam (60+) did it with Aisha when she was 9, then 9 is an excellent number because it written in their religious text 🤔 💭 If the Persians don’t like the adult age in Iran, if they complain, protest, etc., then the armed Basijs gonna brutally, draconically crackdown on them real hard. Plus, its also their ‘religion’, so nobody can’t complain much inside Iran, especially under Shar1a Law, or the Persians may have to face disappearing, the armed and very dangerous Basijs gonna find them, because the Basijs believe they are protecting their ‘religion’ and their ayatollah, so the law is the law 👀 🚨 Religion of piece 🗣️ 🔊
Eh, kids were treated as adults after puberty up until we started having mandatory public education, so like about less than 100 years ago (depends on the country). Remember the British kids who worked in the mines? Gandhi also was married at 12. It just makes sense if all you know is biology that puberty marks when you become an adult. Even the bar / bat mitzvah is a reflection of this biological notification of age change
Yes they do because even if life expectancy is low now, development will bring that number up, and an aging, growing population can be a death knell for economic growth
People in Iran are living on a day to day basis Not knowing what will happen tomorrow, no hope for the future, so there will be no change in the foreseeable future Most of the people are just trying to escape the country even as refugees And pension funds... Those are already bankrupt cause the government has become extremely corrupt
You can say the exact same about countries like Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan who are doing far far worst than Iran yet still have some of the highest fertility rates in the world. The problem is not economic it’s spiritual problem as well as high urbanization and female literacy. Despite the propaganda surrounding Iran on women’s rights, Iran has the highest female literacy rates in the whole region, on par with Turkey.
@@Jareers-ef8hp The BS propaganda promoted about Iran is in relation to secularization of Islam in the country but western media hyper focuses on how it affects women in relation to wearing a hijab. Also I wouldn't count Turkey as being in relation to those countries (besides being mUslim) because Turkey is too culturally European so issues with poverty and literacy affect them differently from other countries that have a history of colonialism or foreign intervention
@@Jareers-ef8hp Good point about the urbanization. Since 1945, not a coincidence rural folk tend to have more kids . A faster pace of life and a higher cost of living bring lots of extra burdens on men. More Mideast countries, not just Iran, are having situations where men became dads only in their late 30s, sometimes early 40s. This was almost unheard of a few decades earlier.
@@cryptocsguy9282 Your correct, most people in Iran aren’t even religious and Iran has a high urbanization rate, Iran is 71% urban and the rest being rural. And the women have the same girl boss mentality as the women in New York make no mistake about it, that is the root cause of their fertility crisis not economics. If it were economics we would see countries like Nigeria, Angola, Somalia, Egypt, Chad and The DRC have worst fertility crisis in the whole world and yet it’s the exact opposite, those countries have the highest total fertility rates in the whole world.
@@tkm238-d4r Very true, I come from the Mid East myself and I can attest to this fact. We are starting to whiteness higher urbanization and unfortunately we are also witnessing the phenomenon of the “girl boss” and that’s just going to bring total destruction to our people.
When you read the bit about the supreme leader announcing 9 years old as the newly lowered MINIMUM age for girls to get married I remembered what country we were talking about here.
@ShumaBot also the same country that used underage boys as child soldiers in the Iran Iraq war just because they felt like it, usually when child soldiers are used it's because you have a shortage of young men (which they didn't have) & as with most countries around the world you are unwilling to conscript women to fight
@@cryptocsguy9282its middle east so thats normal and mureicans were shooting them even when they arent soldiers while in middle east, that age gap isnt spared at all
@meteorknight999 I'm talking about the Iranian military not the Iraqi military, I'm not aware of Iraq using child soldiers but yeah Americans shot kids in Iraq too, as for the middle east more generally there's some crazy Kurds(YPG/YPJ) that conscript everyone men , women , boys, girls 😳 to fight ISIS, the Turks & the Syrian government
I'd argue that an expansive pension plan is a sign of NOT being prepared for rapid aging. Forcing the young people to slave more and more to support the older generations is a bad long-term plan and a dubious goal to have even IF the young people won't just leave to a wealthier nation in response.
Iran is a fascinating country, and I didn't know they were also facing a potential aging crisis. Wild to think the marriage age for girls was 9 years old at one point, though. Thank you for another excellent educational video! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Marriage age everywhere in the world was puberty for all of history until extremely recently. Countries that never had mandatory public education never moved away from that because without going to school, what really separates a teenager from an adult?
Breeding more children under a government of child murderers is probably inadvisable. In any case the poor water reserves and increasing drought will make a large population environmentally unsustainable, particularly when the world moves away from oil. Since sanctions prevent Iran from building up a sovereign wealth fund, the end of oil would be catastrophic.
@@souvikrc4499 They did not murder children. I know what they did was wrong towards the protesters, but you don't have to make up false arguments to be critical about their actions.
Really interesting video, this was actually briefly brought up in our geography class. But I really want to know why the map at 2:47 labels the former Soviet Union as "C.I.S". Obviously the CIS was around by 2006 when the map was made, but not in 1949 which is the year the map depicts.
Wrong, if anything we should learn from Africans and have as many kids as possible. The empire isn't going to build itself. Move along, we're gonna need some Lebensraum very soon!
Very good analysis. But You can mention the Famine between 1917-1919 that killed around 9 millions people, which was around 40 percent of the population.
Actually people can afford to have children now more than any time in history in many of the countries with declining birth rates. It really has almost nothing to do with money, as many studies of subsidy programs to incentivize birth have shown
I'm thinking many seemingly unrelated policies in developing countries politics are mostly about fertility rates more than anything. Women freedom and safety, education, banking reforms, digital, micro-loans for women etc. Even wars and separatist insurgencies are started, if there are too many young men with nothing worthwhile to do.
@@LanaaAmorMaybe read some history, it was relatively chill before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, nothing like the extremist Islamic state it currently is.
@@shubhamer2000There is a reason there was a revolution. His reliance on secret police, curtailing civil liberties, the corruption, the allowance of foreign meddling, and other issues, led to discontent. Did it get worse after, yes but clearly it wasn’t chill enough to keep people happy.
Three people can crap in a river forever, and the river won’t care. But, if 1000 people crap in a river, it’s “done” in three days. Of course, you could but 997 of those people to work building sewage treatment systems, and hope the other three can provide enough food for the rest. Numbers are “illustrative” only, but, I hope you get the point. . .
Do not worry. This is just propaganda being pushed by social-media companies on the behest of govenments and corporations. Governments (read govt officials and employees) want tax💲, and corporations want profits. The govt collect taxes, and corps mint profits when people spend money on their wants and desires. Young people have a lot more wants and desires than older people. Their parents also spend $$ on them, e.g. take trip 🚙to Disneyland. This is why they want ppl to have more children. As for # of people, there ARE a lot of ppl in the world. Why else do you think house prices and rents are through the roof?
Its so hard to disaggregate fertility declines. I'll be interested to see a country who falls below 2.1 regaining their replacement rate without immigration. I think i would move there.
@@JeffBilkins Don't worry. I think only virginal teenagers without a babe write that silly comment after every video they watch. Eventually they will move on to a new cliche.
On 1960, Population of Iran was quite smaller (21M) than South Korea(25M), But now it is about 1.7 times of SK. (89M vs 51M) Population control is essential for effective economic development of developing countries. A country should not make many babies unless it can provide proper education and jobs as an adult.
Part of it was due to longer lifespans. Back in 1960, probably not many Iranians, especially men, lived past 60-65. A quick look at some gatherings in Iran showed a significant increase in older looking males compared to 1979.
The area of the country cannot be ignored. Korea is a very small country, almost the entire population lives in the capital. The density is very high, about 500 people per square kilometer, in Iran the density is about 50 people per square kilometer. There is no more room for people in Korea. High population density also reduces the birth rate.
@@testtestrees4794 just watched a video where they told that fertility rate is 1.7, Iran had been one of the richest countries in the world for millennia, it is poor because of US and British, but history books don't talk about it.
demographics is destiny. and the one thing that corelates the strongest to birth rate decline is the incline of years women spend in education. that applies to iran and the mena region too.
This is true. But I think if people are convinced that having kids is a civic duty or some other modern spin is put on having kids, we can see those rates go back up.
This sounds more like a good news thing than a bad news thing. This is the country rebalancing itself vs the resources the land can provide it. More importantly it is reducing the population environmental foot print. Iran will end up being a better place to live when not so overpopulated to the point food and water is used as a weapon against the population.
As is ever the case, rate and depth of decline matters. Too often this is framed in binary terms as 'is the population declining or not?' In principle, a population that gently settles into the fertility rate of around 1.7-2.0 children per woman is ideal. Excluding the effects of migration, this would lead to gradual population decline over time, and wouldn't result in major generational imbalances - which can be _extremally_ disruptive (e.g. massive pension holes, ghost towns, closing schools, not enough young men for the military...etc) The problem for Iran, and to a greater extent in other parts of the Asia, is that isn't happening. Fertility declines _haven't_ been gradual, and they _haven't_ settled on a level just below replacement. Iran is in a better position than East Asian countries on this front, but it remains to be seen how low fertility will go.
Also people not burdened by having to take care of a whole brood are more likely to have time and resources to live comfortable lives And less likely to be enthusiastic about a theocratic government
@@merrymachiavelli2041 do you have a proof of this principle? Decades upon decades of ongoing decline with no hope in sight doesn't look like the ideal solution to me. To realize that your life is worse than your parents life and your children will live worse than you and their grand children will live even worse isn't a good place to be in. On the flip side, if we look at historical examples, rapid declines are often followed by explosive optimism because the low bar is set so low, which results in new eras of growth.
@@Veylon well, yeah, but that building is *inside Iran.* I don't expect Spanish or German government buildings to have English words on them, too. India, though, I would expect it.
@@rezah336 United states became a super power with the world largest economy and they had far fewer people than India, China etc economy is about good government, not excess people. .
As for the Malaria and DDT part - I'm an Israeli Jew of Iraqi origin (my grandparents fled Iraq after the Jew prosecution there in the 50s) So at the same time, the DDT program was applied to those Jews from the region that went to Israel, every Iraqi, Persian (Iranian), but also Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese and more. Even though - many came from places where it was not an issue. So it is even now a subject of debate in Israel, the the European Jews acted as if the "Arab" Jews are dirty and must be washed with DDT upon arrival.
Is there a Hebrew/yiddish phrase for ‘intermarriage’ between Mizrahim and Sephardim/ashkenazim etc? Also is there still tension between Ashkenazim and the rest? I’m guessing it’s only from the older generation now.
Most of the world's countries have birth rates that are declining. The African countries are, for the most part, the ones with a higher than minimum fertility rate of 2.1 and higher.
They still have a declining birthrate. The decline just began later than in other continents and will catch up to the rest. Meanwhile it causes huge problems for europe.
As soon as women have access to contraceptives they stop popping out baby after baby. Tell women motherhood is a choice and they choose to not become mothers.
Thank you, Jon! As female education rates rise and infant mortality improves the number of children born inevitably declines. It is part of our modern world.
I love these videos and I really like your delivery style, so I have one minor critique that I hope you will find helpful. In English, generally speaking, possession and plurality are signified by adding -'s and -s/-es, respectively, to the end of the word. If one wants to show that a group possesses something, the formula would suggest that one would add both, resulting in -s's/-es's at the end. This results in a sound doubling. The correct way to show plural possession in English is the following: If one girl has a book, it is the girl's book. If two girls have books, they are the girls' books, not the girls's books. To signify plurality and possession at the same time, the doubled sounds are condensed into one. The words girl's, girls, and girls' are pronounced the same (gurlz), with their difference being implicit through context in speech and explicit in writing by adding the apostrophe after the plural -s. It's not necessary to add another possessive -'s after a plural that ends in -s or -es. This is a compromise in English so that you can show possession without doubling the -s sound. This doesn't apply for plurals that don't end in -s or -es, so if a woman has a book, it is the woman's book, but if two women have books, they are they women's books. Again, I provide this critique with the utmost respect and a genuine desire to spread more knowledge about grammar that can help one's speech flow more naturally. Keep up the good work with these videos!
Why is an aging population with no pensions or elder care a problem for the government? The US's problem is the opposite, the Iranian population and wealth is self regulating. Them having pensions wont get them into the west's good graces.
Because 1.) Old people will eventually become a considerable percentage of the population which will affect how they conduct their policy. 2.)This is encouraging younger Iranians to emigrate and this is already happening where they are starting to have a shortage of qualified professionals. In fact it is growing year on year with 2024 having a record number of young Iranians leaving with expectation of a record number more in 2025 due to growing tensions and if some surveys are to be believed more than half of Iranian college students are planning or considering leaving the country because of terrible prospects in the country. 3.) A lack of security such as pensions combined with a terrible economy and a worsening water shortage is actually discourage more Iranians have children as more and more figure out that having kids at this time is a bad idea like when the Soviet Union collapsed. 4.) A minor thing but Iran has this strange crisis where an unusually high amount of doctors, surgeons and nurses are committing suicide due to being overworked and underpaid.
@@iraqlobster7678 great points I haven't considered before. It is so sad to talk to Iranians, so many stem students with no job prospects. It does have a hopeless quality, I always thought of it as consumer spending since it's what government talks about.
You need to put more than a second of thought into it. It’s not good for their regime if all the elderly people are starving to death, even dictatorships have to try and keep their people content or they’ll rebel.
I truly appreciate your unbiased and reasonably accurate analysis. Personally, I'm deeply concerned about the large influx of Afghan migrants into Iran. While many of the country's most skilled and educated citizens are leaving, the majority of Iranians are hesitant to marry or have children due to the high cost of living. At the same time, millions of mostly illiterate and impoverished migrants are entering the country, with families often having around five children. Given the combined impact of this high immigration rate and the migrants' high fertility rates, I fear that Iranians like myself may eventually become a minority in our own homeland. 😢
This phenomenon is happening everywhere all over the world believe it or not. Mass immigration from all parts of the world are happening in every country even ones in Africa, Kenya currently is suffering from mass Congolese immigration because their economy is slightly better. It’s sad but I don’t know what can be done
@@Parthian6 I wish they were, but unfortunately, they're not! Although all of them aren't bad, there are too many bad apples. Iran already has too many problems. We don't need to import other people's problems as well. Iran has limited natural resources like water. Iran has a huge unemployment problem. There's too much poverty here. Rent is already through the roof. Job security is almost non-existent unless you're a government employee. A sizable portion of the migrants are connected to the T organization (if you know what I mean). And on top of that, the government is using them, turning them into regime supporters. With all that said, still most of them are good people, trying to escape the literal misery in Afghanistan.
@@mayer14474 What kind of a legitimacy do we have if we do not help out our brothers and sisters? Yes I am aware that some of them are radicalized but we are the foremost global authority on dealing with and eliminating T ists. We can absolutely adapt Afghans to Iran to the benefit of both populations.
Ageing in Iran or Arab countries is NOT a problem, since these countries can import vast numbers of workers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.
... but only as long as these countries have high population growth and low income so there is a big pool of people who want to leave. Growing wealth and falling birthrates in these countries will change the equation
I appreciate the data, graphs & context you've provided in this video. I encourage viewers who'd like to learn more, to check out the work of David P. Goldman / "Spengler". (His interviews on TH-cam over the years, and also his 2011 book, "How Civilizations Die" (which changed my thinking on the subject.) In my own words, one of Goldman's repeated points is: words can't describe how screwed Iran is, as a society: Iranian women in their 40s, grew up as one of 7 or 8 siblings. But that same woman, will have one or two children. No retirement or pension system (past or present, ancient or modern) could possibly handle a change like that (occurring in only one generation). When these people become dependent elderly... who cares for them? This would be an unprecedented disaster even in a wealthier country (Europe or the US), but Iran doesn't have the per capita wealth of those places. Goldman concluded (and I agree) that this makes Iran's government more dangerous, not less so. His analogy was to a bank robber, with hostages, surrounded by police, but with terminal cancer that he knows will kill him in two weeks or less. Law enforcement would normally negotiate, with the expectation that the gunman would want to preserve his life. But, the fact that he knows that his death is imminent no matter what he does, substantially reduces his perception of the threat or punishment that others can inflict on him. In other words: 'If this country is going to be a very different kind of society in 25 years,' the thinking goes, 'then we must act (war, terrorism or other desperate measures) now, which is the only time when we will be the kind of society capable of having the impact that we wish to have.'
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I see you have been brainwashed to see any slow population decline as "collapse". Honey, 99% of countries have 5-10 times higher population today than they had for almost all their history. Stop being silly. When I was born human population was 5 billion, and the world was fine. When my mom was born, it was 2.5 billion, and the world was fine
We always hear about how Japan is turning into a country of senior citizens. Then how come Japan is not included in the table shown on 22:00 ? Would appreciate an explanation ..
@TheNanoNinja the INE "official statistics say that around 66% are spanish women. But once a woman have the Spanish nationality, there's no way to determine her original nationality. Only the personal quests or some voluntary information requests made in some hospitals, and they can answer whatever they choose.
It's because they view having kids as a national and civic duty due to there being less Jews in the area ruled by Israel than Arabs. That plus their ostensibly democratic system is very perilous. So the only way out is to change the demography. This is a lot of incentive to have kids. Most countries cannot manufacture such an incentive
Yes which is why the most whitest of the whitest,The progressives of the progressive ,The most liberal,western, democratic,Blah blah scandanavians are being replaced by Egyptian,Libyan and Syrians,Very good
Because Islam requires them to. Edit: I take that back as I misread your post. Islam does not require women to "participate in society." It requires them to serve the husband and make him kids. BTW, women usually are quite a bit more religious than men.
That's like asking why men would have sex with girls who hate them. It's Persia, they hate everyone, it's just that before times were good enough some of the inbreds survived
What society? Iran? Where they are more educated than many counterpart countries including the West? I think people see rules about hijab in the media and think women are enraged and furious, but they are like women everywhere. They focus on the economy more than these kinds of things. Just look at the US and how most women voted for the anti-abortion party because of economic anxieties. Most women in Iran, like women everywhere, they want to do better in life, they seize economic opportunities, and the "second class citizen" talk is something they get too, if ever, after they've taken care of themselves and their families.
@@TheNanoNinja many people do consider it and it still changes nothing. We either adapt to these changes by changing our economic models or we'll keep suffering for no reason at all. No animal population on this planet grows indefinitely, it's not a realistic situation. Why are humans panicking over low birth rates when birth rates have been fluctuating since the dawn of time? People legit forget that we're animals, we are subject to the same laws of the universe as everyone else and we definitely don't ever see indefinite growth in any animal population. Why oh why did we create these systems based on constant replacement of humans when most people surely understand that constantly having replacement levels of reproduction is neither possible nor enforceable in the long run?
I'm from Iran, and after watching this video, you've earned a great deal of respect from me. Your content is not only extremely accurate but also unbiased and thoroughly researched, which honestly surprised me.
I now feel confident in trusting the content of your other videos as well, knowing they are truthful and reliable.
As for the $950 deposited for every baby, that program is no longer in effect, but they are exploring other methods.
Thank you for your excellent content!
Do the minorities have more kids still? Baluchis used to have 10 kids each.
This is the same strategy that brought me here and kept me around. Extremely impressed with his research/presentation on topics I'm familiar with
how long did that program go on?
I can confirm from the Balkans as well. Brilliantly researched, unbiased, factual.
I second the confidence and trust, I've been subbed for a long time now
Leave it to Asianometry to post really unique videos on the internet I've been here since under 100k subscribes, my man deserves all the success
Something else that is ignored as a contributor to low birth rates is Contract Jobs. If you are working on say a 3 yr contract you are still not feeling financially secure. However well the job pays you are still uncertain about the future so you postpone starting a family or having kids.
Many people don't even have the luxury of 3 years.
3 year contract is long, by the way.. Most contract jobs are for 1 year maybe even 6 months
More broadly, if you make life crappy and/or expensive enough, people don't have kids. Life is not great in Iran, nor in many other places. What's interesting in Iran is that it's a theocracy and the religion wants more kids, yet people still don't have kids. It's similar to how, in Europe, some of the lowest birth rates are in places that are majority Catholic, despite the fact that birth control is not approved by the church. It's interesting how widespread is the global decline in fertility.
3 years? In what world is that short?
@@Marek21SK 😅In my country it's considered short but ofcourse it's a developing country so the 1 yr contracts are not here yet,, I guess it will get worse
Unbiased, to the point, no distracting visuals, accurate info... tour de force. Thank you
In Iran almost no one has a 401k or any retirement fund. It's the culture for the children to provide for their parents after retirement. The aging population will not suffer without pensions. Their children will.
@danielhenderson9157
Yeah so basically same as here in the West then
Why would Iranians have a 401k? That's American. They have a defined benefit plan, rather than a defined contribution plan.
Well how does saving and investing work in Iran ? I heard some members of the Taliban in Afghanistan hold opium as an asset that grows in value even thou it's officially banned lol
I blame urbanization, if rights and being poor are the problem syria , iraq ...and Africa wouldn't have high TFR
@@hollowgonzalo4329 Even more so because even less or no pension.
Romania had enforced pro-natalist policies under Chaushesku that produced cohorts of unwanted children and indirectly fueled the most violent communist regime overthrow in Eastern Europe. The fact that the Islamic regime in Iran is still holding strong on power could be explained by the rapidly aging population and the open borders allowing for emigration (of mostly young people). All this defuses any potential for organized mass rebellion potential -- aging population is far less conducive to revolutionary acts and prefer to settle down and carry on.
Just like Hungary, they are stifling future prospects to keep the status quo
@@christianweibrecht6555 And basically all of the Balkan countries.
@@SapereAude1490 to me it’s hilarious how the most nationalistic Slavs who lament their motherland’s declining population usually live in Berlin
Essentially letting of the pressure
Well, are you happy now? Romania will lose 50% of its population by the end of the century, and Arabs and Africans will be brought in to support the old people. Much better, right?
Happening in many places now. Even in China, Korea, Indonesia and in other developed and developing countries.
Wasn't aware this is happening in Indonesia too, was under the impression their population is going up quickly
@@ruiqianren9405
It's still the most high fertility among Korea Vietnam Thailand Philippines Japan. .etc
It's 2.1 I think
It's a world wide trend except in Africa, and even there it's still going down somewhat.
Same in India, people got educated and worked on family planning, but they never got rich or hopeful for future prospects. Millennials and Genz are only having a single kid cause it's too damn expensive to raise another one, government doesn't give a fuck cause the biggest voter base will be old people, so who cares about youth not having children, as long as they can keep getting votes from elderly
Thats great news more other countries following
I am so glad to see a video by you on Iran again! As an Iranian-American, it's so hard to get non-biased information about Iranian government actions from either sides, thank u so much!
People are having kids: panik
People are not having kids: panik
Though it’s fundamentally a mismatch between the amount of youth and available occupations when they come of age.
Humans hate everything, EVERYTHING!
Two entirely different sets of people panicking.
Iranians abroad have even lower fertility rates.
In Austria Iranian immigrants have fertility rates similar to those of Japan. While some other immigrant communities, even European, have higher than those in their home countries, Romanians and Macedonians even having them at replacement level!
Yep. In reality Europeans are always ahead of the curve. Low-fertility will soon be seen as a third world/diversity thing.
Gross.
Probably because most of those immigrants that fled the country after the Shah was deposed happened to be more wealthy, more educated, etc. So you have a community that is more prone to low birth rate; compared to other immigrants that are low-skilled, low paid workers, who are more likely to have more than 2 per family
The difference in mindset perhaps. Some leave to have better opportunities for their current and future families while others left simply due to familial pressure or disagreement with the government policies.
As soon as women have a choice, they say no to motherhood.
We don't want to be 24/7 caretakers with endless sacrifices.
I want my lufe for myself.
Optimism is biggest indicator of a nation's fertility after economics. Swiss RR fell during WW2 even though their economy was pretty good and they weren't involved in pitch battles. EDIT: This is among pluralistic countries not among countries were state has light to heavy influence of births.
take Israel for example, the birth rate is around 3. on the flip side there is the quiet after the storm, where the "baby boom" should happen, so not sure which effect is in play here.
But in the other hand, its evindet that - contrary to any other species human birth rate raises in tough times.
@@galzafar2943also probably 60% of this rate is conservative Jewish famiies with 8+ kids 😂
Must be why Israelis now have higher birthrate than the Arabs.
African countries like Niger are far away from promising, optimistic and economically transcendent. At the same time they have the highest birthrate in the planet, same can be said about all the neighbors of that zone. Sexual desire and "lack of shame" to both date and impregnate someone is one of the biggest factors contributing to this rise in birth rate. It seems that tribalism, and the lack of social norms related to the western model of productivity make people less lazy and skeptical when it comes to having a children. This is all culture, making it a big factor. In many undeveloped countries, people want to "keep their bloodline alive". In modernized countries the individual matters all the time, and its suffering should not be passed upon others (especially a family member like a son/daughter), so having a children is one of the last options one has to plan their lives with.
Housing price is the surest form of birth control. When homes are investments there is no room for children.
Doesn't mesh with the fact that the highest birth rates happen among the poor, who can scarcely afford to buy homes. Or with the fact that the rich also don't have many kids, despite owning several homes. Or take the case of Japan, where birth rates are rock bottom despite houses LOSING value over there. You can even have a house for free there if you want, but still they have no kids. This has never been an affordability issue, that's just the story people tell everyone to moan more.
Housing near jobs are what matter. Low income area with very low housing costs could manage in the past, but have been bought up.
So why do rich people have so few kids then?
It’s feminism 💯
@@ArawnOfAnnwnLiterally this.
Not only that, but time is an important factor as well.
When you have barely time for your self, you do not really have time to raise a child.
Both parents work today. And their life is pretty much sleep, eat, work rinse repeat.
Adding a kid to such conditions, only make it worse. As well as people are so well educated today.
Like me, i wont get a child until i have proper finances. Simply cause im not egoistic enough to bring a child to this world, unless i can give the child what it needs.
The stupid uneducated, get lots of kids.
If you want educated people to have kids. You must have the essentials in order.
Modernity coupled with poor economy is why Iran birth rates are declining. It is a very modern country with many young, talented people with no prospects. This is why birth rates are declining.
Nope. It’s feminism
Typically not having prospects makes people want to procreate because there's nothing else to do and nothing else to hope for.
But if you have careers and plans and grander visions, kids can kinda be secondary, to be deferred into your 30s and 40s
What? Maybe that's why developed countries have a low birth rate? And those who have children are mostly migrants, like in France, for example, the French have 0 or 1 child, and Arabs and Africans have 3-5? It's the same in Sweden.
It's not about economics, but about culture.
For example, in America it's not like that, white Americans often have children. Different culture.
Don't forget the Islamic regime's new policy of opening the floodgate of millions and millions of mostly illiterate and impoverished migrants from Afghanistan. They are going to become the majority of the population in the foreseeable future.
I really wished there would be also an Europenmetry and other continent channels similar to this one! Its just great.
No thanks
I'd rather have more channels dedicated to Africa than Europe. Europe gets plenty of coverage already.
youtube.com/@kaiserbauch9092?si=13SBlhU4mIHLUJkp
He has great videos especially on demographic trends majorly in Europe & around the world
@yehez-frederik I love Europe.
@ArawnOfAnnwn not enough coverage
Restricting access to contraceptives to increase birth rates sounds about as band-aid measure as "improving workers' standards" to increase "stability".
theres natural birth control methods iranian women cud use
They forget that people can order contraceptives and abortion medicine via Internet.
And even have no xes.
I am Single by Choice. But if I was in a relationship, and had no access to contraceptives and abortion, I wouldn't risk having xes.
Hey, would you consider doing a history of Epson? Most people in the west just think of printers and projectors…
Best thing to do is email him. Ive submitted a couple video ideas that way.
I lived in Tehran as a kid, one of the best years of my youth. I spent days exploring the city, parks, getting baguettes, and every other form of delightful treats. One day ❤
Im half Persian and appreciate this demographics perspective. Thanks
@marcussassan Bro fix your birth rate lol
Other half?
@@Blah888north Korean
@@zuesadam7143 😂
I grew up close to Iranian Americans and I can say for a fact most of them didn't have kids and if they did it was 1. Most had their parents leave Iran during the revolution.
Yes because their secular humanist liberals. Those kinds of people never breed children
Praying that Persia gets liberated from Islam
It used to have such a beautiful culture
@@Jareers-ef8hp
Birthrate decline is super interesting to me, great video as always John!
The video proved that we can't blame Israeli Mossad for every Iranian misfortune; they also create their disaster.😂
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@@synaestesia-bg3ewhow's Lebanon taste like Mr IDF 🤣
Finally after years of following you you made a video about my country!
salam dada
well he has a collection of really well made videos over iran
Thanks
The c90adventures iran video was a nice surprise. The actual citizens seem very kind and pleasant.
So far nowhere near South Korea
South Korea is also rich. Which Iran really is not.
Or Russia is you only take the Russian oblast. Some have a 0.97 birth rate.
@@MosesPaulShelest All the rich countries have screwed up birth rates , also I could be wrong but I don't think Iran is that poor but it ain't that rich either
@@cryptocsguy9282 It’s not just rich countries.
Practically every country on earth across all continents is seeing declining birthrates, even Africa (albeit nowhere near to the same extent).
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It’s the contractual jobs. It has you on edge the close the renewal period comes
Eren Yeager is the real reason of population decline.
Fertility is declining all over the world. There’s a general feeling that life is becoming too cruel for more children.
It's more about education. Countries like Somalia, Niger and Afghanistan still have very high birth rates. Iranians have became educated, hence why their birth rate is dropping.
Im australian but a few of my good friends are from iran. Many of the young proffessionals in australia, especially engineers of all types, civil, chemical and electrical. Many doctors and dentists are here and my sister inlaw is an architect who knows of a few in the field. The ones i know have all sponsored other iranian young proffessionals or just family and many mechanics around the place. So im pretty sure the same has happened in all western countries and thats the reason for no young people left in iran. Also 90% of the iranian expats had an arranged marriage organised so once their future partner had set themselves up, they sponsored their partner
Terrorists sponsoring terrorists
You keep on surprising me with the topics of your videos, always interesting though
The biggest factor in the decline in birth rates in Iran is not the economy (although it plays a part), it's the liberalisation and secularisation of the Persians. Interestingly, the ethnic minorities of Iran particularly the Kurds, Baloch and Arabs are the only "Iranians" that are having 4+ kids. They are also poorer than the Persians!
So ur mother was born to make babies, if thats her duty send her to arab sheikh to increase production of arabs hhh, what a idiot
the decline is not because of economics its because of education... more educated a woman is the less children they have .
@@samankucher5117 That would explain why very poor people breed like crazy.
All factors matter, and you can't single out secularization or any other factor for this. It's a sctructural shift of the culture coupled with countless more disincetives for procreation. In a way, even religious mores can play a role diminishing fertility since a youth who cares for his parents (out of a religious duty) can't afford to raise a family on his own, and he can't do it because he must provide for his elderly parents first.
The more civilized, the lower the birth rate
Same birthrate problem as everyone else, just a little less
They have higher infant morality so it’s not much better
@@AustrianPainter14 and their economy is still in developing status
@@AustrianPainter14iran does?
It is fascinating because of it being a jihadist sharia law state. This should NOT have happened to them.
Especially considering how poor they are. Hard to explain in many ways.
Thank you so much for this video; I was excited to see you cover a topic about my country, and the historical picture you paint is very interesting.
One minor correction: the population control policies after war did include instructions for number of children, although it didn't mandate it. I clearly remember signs in the streets of Tehran, saying that one child is good and two is enough.
Also, an important factor contributing indirectly but strongly to low fertility is the mandatory military service for boys only. This has been in place for about a century now. At the age of 18, when people finish high school and take the national entrance exam for universities, boys who are not admitted must go to military service, which lasts two years. They are much less likely than girls of their age to continue education after finishing the military service. This contributes to the higher ratio of girls to boys at higher education, which you did mentioned, but also to higher fertility of men. The mandatory military service eventually contributes to disparity in access to education, job opportunities and social class between men and women in the same age group and social cohort, which makes it harder for men to marry. Of course, this doesn't mean that good old fashioned patriarchy is going away!
If you dont mind have a few questions are you a muslim? Is Iran still a Islamic state? Do people still think about killing infidels?is the child marriage still a law which is allowed? Are your own people safe from government when spoken against them?are Election valid? Is the country radicalized like afganistan?
@@Blah888Answers:
-Iran is still officially an Islamic state.
-People do not think about “killing infidels”. This is something only in the mind of Fox News.
-You would be very surprised by how much opposition exists, and candidates favored by the government often lose in elections. There is an argument to be made that their elections might be more democratic than US elections.
-The country used to be radicalized in the 1980s when they were in a major war against Iraq. It’s not radicalized any more.
Iran is not like the cartoonish caricature presented by Western, especially American, media.
Answer is no to all of your questions.
@@Blah888 That's a whole lot of leading questions...
@@Blah888 For your second and third last questions the answer is yes
how do you not only research all this stuff so quickly, but also make it all into videos? you're insane. I can't even keep up and all I do is watch em in my skivvies
Google.
9:08 man would have never thought this would be uploaded here of all places
As an American who watched the 1979 embassy takover on TV, I had a pretty low resolution view of the Iranian regime. Its interesting that the family planning policies were fairly enlightened, stressing autonomy for couples rather than draconian limits, keeping contraception legal, and so on. Thank you for a well researched view inside a country we rarely ever hear about in the West except for wars.
Hey, Can you make a common video about why so many countries implemented family planning and population control policies in 1970s-80s, not just the One child policy in China but also various '2 child policies' in countries like Iran, India, etc. And looking at the projections what impact these policies had and how they can deal with it!
2 words.. george soros
Because there was rapid population growth after WWII and Neo-Malthusian ideas were trendy back then. Organizations like the UN and World Bank pushed for family planning, believing that controlling population growth would help economic development. Of course many developing countries just accepted that wholesale and rushed to implement the policies they advised. It's like the idea with climate change and how it's pushed by different world bodies and countries today although that I think is much more credible and real then overpopulation fear ever was.
Soros forcing birth control?
Because they were suffering from overpopulation japan had the same problem in the early 20th century so it sent migrants to many countries in the americas
@@_Ahmed_15 Funny, since the size of human population is a key factor in global warming.
Thank you for once again presenting such an interesting topic so well researched.
I'm from Iran 🇮🇷 borne 1985 my wife 1987, we have infertility problem, we are trying to get a child for 11 years and start the infertility treatment, from 2020 the government give us 30% of the infertility treatment we pay, after 12 years of marriage we still don't have a child😔
The government is bringing afghan people to replace Iranian people who are leaving Iran because of economic problems
arent they sunni? how does that sit with a shia majority country?
@@priyojitchatterjee6164I'm guessing they're planning/hoping to convert them to their sect
@@zuesadam7143 isnt that technically leaving islam for a sunni given that the two dont see each other as "real islam"?
@@priyojitchatterjee6164 yes but that'll depend on who you ask
I feel you, my brother!
We're being quietly replaced by Afghans.
Having a child in a country where woman is not a human, with lack of facilities, with no money, no house, no insuranse. No way
Many of Ministers in Iran are women
Womens in Iran are more educated than men
Say someone born from an OF 304.
@@akeel6328 you
@@akeel6328 wtf is wrong with you?
Really, do you think iran is Afghanistan 😂
They saw what China did and said, "Hold my coffee."
Fertility is declining all over the world so it doesn’t surprise me that it’s finally hit Iran.
Liar
As somebody who took a lot of development economics classes, family planning and sending girls to school are the best solutions to world hunger and poverty in general. It is the one primary difference between rich and poor countries. Not resources!
It's also the fastest way to a declining birth rate. It's very odd living today and seeing that all our well intentioned choices are leading to problems we didn't foresee and can no longer avoid
@@fark69 1. Childfree
2. They're not childfree, but want to have children in older age.
3. 1 child is enough for them.
An incredibly detailed and interesting exploration of the different ways people live, how these shape us, and how this contributes to declining birth rates, exemplified through the case of Iran.
9 years old adults that's wild
That’s obscene.
That's a Pedro File culture.
Diss guss ting
In Iran, I think that 9 years old as ‘an adult’ is most likely due to 1slamic Law, Shar1a Law, so if their ‘prophet’ MoHam (60+) did it with Aisha when she was 9, then 9 is an excellent number because it written in their religious text 🤔 💭
If the Persians don’t like the adult age in Iran, if they complain, protest, etc., then the armed Basijs gonna brutally, draconically crackdown on them real hard.
Plus, its also their ‘religion’, so nobody can’t complain much inside Iran, especially under Shar1a Law, or the Persians may have to face disappearing, the armed and very dangerous Basijs gonna find them, because the
Basijs believe they are protecting their ‘religion’ and their ayatollah, so the law is the law 👀 🚨
Religion of piece 🗣️ 🔊
@@shiki325 must follow their pdf prophet
Eh, kids were treated as adults after puberty up until we started having mandatory public education, so like about less than 100 years ago (depends on the country). Remember the British kids who worked in the mines? Gandhi also was married at 12. It just makes sense if all you know is biology that puberty marks when you become an adult. Even the bar / bat mitzvah is a reflection of this biological notification of age change
I don't think Iran needs to worry that much about an aging population given that the life expectancy is much lower than let's say Japan.
Yes they do because even if life expectancy is low now, development will bring that number up, and an aging, growing population can be a death knell for economic growth
People in Iran are living on a day to day basis
Not knowing what will happen tomorrow, no hope for the future, so there will be no change in the foreseeable future
Most of the people are just trying to escape the country even as refugees
And pension funds... Those are already bankrupt cause the government has become extremely corrupt
You can say the exact same about countries like Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan who are doing far far worst than Iran yet still have some of the highest fertility rates in the world. The problem is not economic it’s spiritual problem as well as high urbanization and female literacy. Despite the propaganda surrounding Iran on women’s rights, Iran has the highest female literacy rates in the whole region, on par with Turkey.
@@Jareers-ef8hp The BS propaganda promoted about Iran is in relation to secularization of Islam in the country but western media hyper focuses on how it affects women in relation to wearing a hijab. Also I wouldn't count Turkey as being in relation to those countries (besides being mUslim) because Turkey is too culturally European so issues with poverty and literacy affect them differently from other countries that have a history of colonialism or foreign intervention
@@Jareers-ef8hp Good point about the urbanization. Since 1945, not a coincidence rural folk tend to have more kids .
A faster pace of life and a higher cost of living bring lots of extra burdens on men.
More Mideast countries, not just Iran, are having situations where men became dads only in their late 30s, sometimes early 40s. This was almost unheard of a few decades earlier.
@@cryptocsguy9282 Your correct, most people in Iran aren’t even religious and Iran has a high urbanization rate, Iran is 71% urban and the rest being rural. And the women have the same girl boss mentality as the women in New York make no mistake about it, that is the root cause of their fertility crisis not economics. If it were economics we would see countries like Nigeria, Angola, Somalia, Egypt, Chad and The DRC have worst fertility crisis in the whole world and yet it’s the exact opposite, those countries have the highest total fertility rates in the whole world.
@@tkm238-d4r Very true, I come from the Mid East myself and I can attest to this fact. We are starting to whiteness higher urbanization and unfortunately we are also witnessing the phenomenon of the “girl boss” and that’s just going to bring total destruction to our people.
this was so good. Excellent content. Thank you for educating us :)
When you read the bit about the supreme leader announcing 9 years old as the newly lowered MINIMUM age for girls to get married I remembered what country we were talking about here.
@ShumaBot also the same country that used underage boys as child soldiers in the Iran Iraq war just because they felt like it, usually when child soldiers are used it's because you have a shortage of young men (which they didn't have) & as with most countries around the world you are unwilling to conscript women to fight
@@cryptocsguy9282its middle east so thats normal and mureicans were shooting them even when they arent soldiers while in middle east, that age gap isnt spared at all
@@cryptocsguy9282its middle east so thats usual and mureicans were taking them down while in middle east not sparing at all, that age gap isnt safe
@@cryptocsguy9282its middle east so thats usual, and mureicans were taking them down while in middle east not sparing at all, that age gap isnt safe
@meteorknight999 I'm talking about the Iranian military not the Iraqi military, I'm not aware of Iraq using child soldiers but yeah Americans shot kids in Iraq too, as for the middle east more generally there's some crazy Kurds(YPG/YPJ) that conscript everyone men , women , boys, girls 😳 to fight ISIS, the Turks & the Syrian government
I'd argue that an expansive pension plan is a sign of NOT being prepared for rapid aging. Forcing the young people to slave more and more to support the older generations is a bad long-term plan and a dubious goal to have even IF the young people won't just leave to a wealthier nation in response.
Iran is a fascinating country, and I didn't know they were also facing a potential aging crisis. Wild to think the marriage age for girls was 9 years old at one point, though. Thank you for another excellent educational video!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
No thanks. I am an antithrist. Religion is a giant scam.
I hope you realize that soon.
Marriage age everywhere in the world was puberty for all of history until extremely recently. Countries that never had mandatory public education never moved away from that because without going to school, what really separates a teenager from an adult?
This video was a pleasant watch, well researched and cited!!
Breeding more children under a government of child murderers is probably inadvisable. In any case the poor water reserves and increasing drought will make a large population environmentally unsustainable, particularly when the world moves away from oil. Since sanctions prevent Iran from building up a sovereign wealth fund, the end of oil would be catastrophic.
Child murderers?
@@samitabbakh8409 their actions during the 2022 protests seem to imply that
@@souvikrc4499 They did not murder children. I know what they did was wrong towards the protesters, but you don't have to make up false arguments to be critical about their actions.
@@souvikrc4499How exactly?
Uhhh, by that logic the entire european and american governments is even more of a child murderer then, because their fertility rate is even lower.
Really interesting video, this was actually briefly brought up in our geography class.
But I really want to know why the map at 2:47 labels the former Soviet Union as "C.I.S". Obviously the CIS was around by 2006 when the map was made, but not in 1949 which is the year the map depicts.
I've heard that Iran has their own microchip fabs can you make a video on that topic ?
they're almost primative compared to modern microchips, but they get the job done. their job being missile and drone guidance
@@amirhoseinbizhanzade2064 They use it for military purposes only ?
@@hannanmehdi9774 seems like it. Other than that, they mostly tend to import them from overseas.
Government interference in families never ends well.
Iran needs to teach Africa culturally acceptable familly planning methods, before it is too late
Wrong, if anything we should learn from Africans and have as many kids as possible. The empire isn't going to build itself. Move along, we're gonna need some Lebensraum very soon!
Leave us alone
@ you need to deal with population explosion… as powerty is pushing your people to other countries
@@itsathi6055 Be alone! Do not move abroad!!
Africans have a piracy problem, not a child care problem.
Very good analysis.
But You can mention the Famine between 1917-1919 that killed around 9 millions people, which was around 40 percent of the population.
People can't afford to have children worldwide....
Actually people can afford to have children now more than any time in history in many of the countries with declining birth rates. It really has almost nothing to do with money, as many studies of subsidy programs to incentivize birth have shown
Irans emigration has lowered to 80 thousand a year compared 120 thousand in 1990s
To be honest, it’s hard to tell; even the running government has its head in the sand regarding this
@@souvikrc4499 its based on official stats
@@Kurdish20226 care to link those official stats?
@@souvikrc4499 i cant link but go to emigration per country on google
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I'm thinking many seemingly unrelated policies in developing countries politics are mostly about fertility rates more than anything. Women freedom and safety, education, banking reforms, digital, micro-loans for women etc.
Even wars and separatist insurgencies are started, if there are too many young men with nothing worthwhile to do.
Iran used to be so chill. Countries would do anything for a birthrate today half as high as they had.
Iran was chill probably thousands of years ago before recorded history. Not anymore.
During the reign of SHAH OF IRAN it use to be chill one but after ISLAMIC REVOLUTION all good things went to toilet
@@LanaaAmorMaybe read some history, it was relatively chill before the 1979 Iranian Revolution, nothing like the extremist Islamic state it currently is.
@@shubhamer2000There is a reason there was a revolution. His reliance on secret police, curtailing civil liberties, the corruption, the allowance of foreign meddling, and other issues, led to discontent. Did it get worse after, yes but clearly it wasn’t chill enough to keep people happy.
Part of the reason for the coup was because of the US backed Ayatolah
Three people can crap in a river forever, and the river won’t care. But, if 1000 people crap in a river, it’s “done” in three days. Of course, you could but 997 of those people to work building sewage treatment systems, and hope the other three can provide enough food for the rest.
Numbers are “illustrative” only, but, I hope you get the point. . .
carefull with youtube, at 9:09 the guy in white is showing the middle finger
He is flipping off TH-cam. Like many of us are.
He was scratching his nose lmao
That was a real subtle FO
As a 38 year old guy without children from Iran, your video made me deeply worried.
Do not worry. This is just propaganda being pushed by social-media companies on the behest of govenments and corporations. Governments (read govt officials and employees) want tax💲, and corporations want profits. The govt collect taxes, and corps mint profits when people spend money on their wants and desires. Young people have a lot more wants and desires than older people. Their parents also spend $$ on them, e.g. take trip 🚙to Disneyland. This is why they want ppl to have more children.
As for # of people, there ARE a lot of ppl in the world. Why else do you think house prices and rents are through the roof?
you should have children for your country
@@Alberto-yz3qy no, noone should have kids for political reasons. That is terrible for the kids
The whole world has the same issue, but it's not bad.
Its so hard to disaggregate fertility declines. I'll be interested to see a country who falls below 2.1 regaining their replacement rate without immigration. I think i would move there.
They don't need no immigrants like you
but were will they came from since this affects most countries
So far, only Israel
Georgia, then?
@@Demopans5990by oppressing the heck out of the ultra conservative female population
Great presentation!
0:54 The 1990s only have 10 years, you probably meant to say the first 25 years of the 1900s.
babe wake up new Asianometry just dropped
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ugh, really?
@@JeffBilkins Don't worry. I think only virginal teenagers without a babe write that silly comment after every video they watch. Eventually they will move on to a new cliche.
@@Dave_Sisson someone don't understand sarcasm
@@KissofDeath63 I wrote it that way to embarrass the kid who wrote it. I bet he won't write it again.
9:09 Yes, nice to see you too.
Was it a middle finger?
Nah he was scratching his face
@@mahdi8572 we wouldn't really know unless he really was malicious about it, middle finger can mean many things
Very informative video! Thank you.
On 1960, Population of Iran was quite smaller (21M) than South Korea(25M), But now it is about 1.7 times of SK. (89M vs 51M) Population control is essential for effective economic development of developing countries. A country should not make many babies unless it can provide proper education and jobs as an adult.
Part of it was due to longer lifespans. Back in 1960, probably not many Iranians, especially men, lived past 60-65.
A quick look at some gatherings in Iran showed a significant increase in older looking males compared to 1979.
then why is SK, JP, CN population declining, I would say its due to high expectations, but low output in reality
Education and jobs? what about food and water?????
The area of the country cannot be ignored. Korea is a very small country, almost the entire population lives in the capital. The density is very high, about 500 people per square kilometer, in Iran the density is about 50 people per square kilometer. There is no more room for people in Korea. High population density also reduces the birth rate.
@@testtestrees4794 just watched a video where they told that fertility rate is 1.7, Iran had been one of the richest countries in the world for millennia, it is poor because of US and British, but history books don't talk about it.
demographics is destiny. and the one thing that corelates the strongest to birth rate decline is the incline of years women spend in education. that applies to iran and the mena region too.
This is true. But I think if people are convinced that having kids is a civic duty or some other modern spin is put on having kids, we can see those rates go back up.
Irans birthrate has rose a little bit to 1.8
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bro .... Turkey mostly in the west of it is getting low to 1.1 this is a global thing most countries are dropping too .
I wish people understood that parenting from infancy is the key to happy men
This sounds more like a good news thing than a bad news thing. This is the country rebalancing itself vs the resources the land can provide it. More importantly it is reducing the population environmental foot print. Iran will end up being a better place to live when not so overpopulated to the point food and water is used as a weapon against the population.
As is ever the case, rate and depth of decline matters. Too often this is framed in binary terms as 'is the population declining or not?' In principle, a population that gently settles into the fertility rate of around 1.7-2.0 children per woman is ideal. Excluding the effects of migration, this would lead to gradual population decline over time, and wouldn't result in major generational imbalances - which can be _extremally_ disruptive (e.g. massive pension holes, ghost towns, closing schools, not enough young men for the military...etc)
The problem for Iran, and to a greater extent in other parts of the Asia, is that isn't happening. Fertility declines _haven't_ been gradual, and they _haven't_ settled on a level just below replacement. Iran is in a better position than East Asian countries on this front, but it remains to be seen how low fertility will go.
Also people not burdened by having to take care of a whole brood are more likely to have time and resources to live comfortable lives
And less likely to be enthusiastic about a theocratic government
Not only that but also the fact many young people emigrating abroad @@merrymachiavelli2041
@@merrymachiavelli2041 do you have a proof of this principle? Decades upon decades of ongoing decline with no hope in sight doesn't look like the ideal solution to me. To realize that your life is worse than your parents life and your children will live worse than you and their grand children will live even worse isn't a good place to be in.
On the flip side, if we look at historical examples, rapid declines are often followed by explosive optimism because the low bar is set so low, which results in new eras of growth.
It wouldn't be a problem if Iran was free. It would have plenty of resources
13:05 Highly amusing that English is also on the building.
Yeah I saw that too!
English is the lingua franca of the world.
What's so amusing about it lol
@@Veylon well, yeah, but that building is *inside Iran.* I don't expect Spanish or German government buildings to have English words on them, too.
India, though, I would expect it.
@@RonJohn63 I guess I guess it’s understandable to be a bit amazed, considering the Iranian government’s attitude toward the English language.
iran were 30 million pre revolution, now over 80 million, if you dont grow a few years is not important
Wow 80 million is huge
A few years doesn't matter, but a number of decades below replacement rate will create havoc. Old women cannot have children.
It actually is extremely important because the economy can stop growing if your working age population shrinks and your retired age population grows
@@fark69 why should the economy grow if there are less people?
less people = smaller economy
@@rezah336 United states became a super power with the world largest economy and they had far fewer people than India, China etc economy is about good government, not excess people. .
THANK YOU for making the range of all those graphs start at 0
As for the Malaria and DDT part - I'm an Israeli Jew of Iraqi origin (my grandparents fled Iraq after the Jew prosecution there in the 50s)
So at the same time, the DDT program was applied to those Jews from the region that went to Israel, every Iraqi, Persian (Iranian), but also Egyptian, Syrian, Lebanese and more.
Even though - many came from places where it was not an issue.
So it is even now a subject of debate in Israel, the the European Jews acted as if the "Arab" Jews are dirty and must be washed with DDT upon arrival.
Is there a Hebrew/yiddish phrase for ‘intermarriage’ between Mizrahim and Sephardim/ashkenazim etc?
Also is there still tension between Ashkenazim and the rest? I’m guessing it’s only from the older generation now.
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Most of the world's countries have birth rates that are declining. The African countries are, for the most part, the ones with a higher than minimum fertility rate of 2.1 and higher.
They still have a declining birthrate. The decline just began later than in other continents and will catch up to the rest. Meanwhile it causes huge problems for europe.
As soon as women have access to contraceptives they stop popping out baby after baby.
Tell women motherhood is a choice and they choose to not become mothers.
Thank you, Jon!
As female education rates rise and infant mortality improves the number of children born inevitably declines. It is part of our modern world.
Yeah, If men were able to give birth, there would be no babies around 😂
Yes, but we cannot modernize ourselves to economic disaster. We have to figure out a way to make having kids cool and modern
I love these videos and I really like your delivery style, so I have one minor critique that I hope you will find helpful. In English, generally speaking, possession and plurality are signified by adding -'s and -s/-es, respectively, to the end of the word. If one wants to show that a group possesses something, the formula would suggest that one would add both, resulting in -s's/-es's at the end. This results in a sound doubling. The correct way to show plural possession in English is the following:
If one girl has a book, it is the girl's book. If two girls have books, they are the girls' books, not the girls's books.
To signify plurality and possession at the same time, the doubled sounds are condensed into one. The words girl's, girls, and girls' are pronounced the same (gurlz), with their difference being implicit through context in speech and explicit in writing by adding the apostrophe after the plural -s. It's not necessary to add another possessive -'s after a plural that ends in -s or -es. This is a compromise in English so that you can show possession without doubling the -s sound. This doesn't apply for plurals that don't end in -s or -es, so if a woman has a book, it is the woman's book, but if two women have books, they are they women's books.
Again, I provide this critique with the utmost respect and a genuine desire to spread more knowledge about grammar that can help one's speech flow more naturally. Keep up the good work with these videos!
Every country outside of some African nations are experiencing population decline.
Afghanistan outside africa have highest.
Liar
Why is an aging population with no pensions or elder care a problem for the government? The US's problem is the opposite, the Iranian population and wealth is self regulating. Them having pensions wont get them into the west's good graces.
The US has the same problem but uses immigration to try and fix it. But that has problems too. You need economic growth and a way to care for elders.
Because 1.) Old people will eventually become a considerable percentage of the population which will affect how they conduct their policy. 2.)This is encouraging younger Iranians to emigrate and this is already happening where they are starting to have a shortage of qualified professionals. In fact it is growing year on year with 2024 having a record number of young Iranians leaving with expectation of a record number more in 2025 due to growing tensions and if some surveys are to be believed more than half of Iranian college students are planning or considering leaving the country because of terrible prospects in the country. 3.) A lack of security such as pensions combined with a terrible economy and a worsening water shortage is actually discourage more Iranians have children as more and more figure out that having kids at this time is a bad idea like when the Soviet Union collapsed. 4.) A minor thing but Iran has this strange crisis where an unusually high amount of doctors, surgeons and nurses are committing suicide due to being overworked and underpaid.
@@iraqlobster7678 great points I haven't considered before. It is so sad to talk to Iranians, so many stem students with no job prospects. It does have a hopeless quality, I always thought of it as consumer spending since it's what government talks about.
You need to put more than a second of thought into it. It’s not good for their regime if all the elderly people are starving to death, even dictatorships have to try and keep their people content or they’ll rebel.
Iran is not the only one - America, China, Japan, India, and most of the EU are in population decline.
India has only reached below replacement level fertlity rate but population decline will not start until 2050.
I truly appreciate your unbiased and reasonably accurate analysis.
Personally, I'm deeply concerned about the large influx of Afghan migrants into Iran. While many of the country's most skilled and educated citizens are leaving, the majority of Iranians are hesitant to marry or have children due to the high cost of living. At the same time, millions of mostly illiterate and impoverished migrants are entering the country, with families often having around five children.
Given the combined impact of this high immigration rate and the migrants' high fertility rates, I fear that Iranians like myself may eventually become a minority in our own homeland. 😢
This phenomenon is happening everywhere all over the world believe it or not. Mass immigration from all parts of the world are happening in every country even ones in Africa, Kenya currently is suffering from mass Congolese immigration because their economy is slightly better. It’s sad but I don’t know what can be done
Oh come on afghans are mostly iranian anyways. This sort of mentality is destructive.
@@Parthian6 I wish they were, but unfortunately, they're not!
Although all of them aren't bad, there are too many bad apples. Iran already has too many problems. We don't need to import other people's problems as well.
Iran has limited natural resources like water. Iran has a huge unemployment problem. There's too much poverty here. Rent is already through the roof. Job security is almost non-existent unless you're a government employee. A sizable portion of the migrants are connected to the T organization (if you know what I mean). And on top of that, the government is using them, turning them into regime supporters.
With all that said, still most of them are good people, trying to escape the literal misery in Afghanistan.
@@mayer14474 What kind of a legitimacy do we have if we do not help out our brothers and sisters? Yes I am aware that some of them are radicalized but we are the foremost global authority on dealing with and eliminating T ists. We can absolutely adapt Afghans to Iran to the benefit of both populations.
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The number one thing that reduced the birthrate world wide was when Fluoride was introduced in either water, milk or salt
it saved more lives.
Ageing in Iran or Arab countries is NOT a problem, since these countries can import vast numbers of workers from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, etc.
... but only as long as these countries have high population growth and low income so there is a big pool of people who want to leave.
Growing wealth and falling birthrates in these countries will change the equation
Sure, immigration and artificial multiculturalism comes with no strings attached…not.
If you do this the right way,not like in the West. They treat migrants as a temporary workers,not new citizens@@AustrianPainter14
Importing Pakistanis and Afghans? What a terrible idea
@@AustrianPainter14Arab countries don’t allow immigrants to settle, there is no provision for citizenship, every single immigrant has to leave.
at this point which country isn't in birth rate decline...
Most of them
Birthrate is dependent on child mortality and female education. First indicator lags by a generation.
I appreciate the data, graphs & context you've provided in this video. I encourage viewers who'd like to learn more, to check out the work of David P. Goldman / "Spengler". (His interviews on TH-cam over the years, and also his 2011 book, "How Civilizations Die" (which changed my thinking on the subject.) In my own words, one of Goldman's repeated points is: words can't describe how screwed Iran is, as a society: Iranian women in their 40s, grew up as one of 7 or 8 siblings. But that same woman, will have one or two children. No retirement or pension system (past or present, ancient or modern) could possibly handle a change like that (occurring in only one generation). When these people become dependent elderly... who cares for them? This would be an unprecedented disaster even in a wealthier country (Europe or the US), but Iran doesn't have the per capita wealth of those places.
Goldman concluded (and I agree) that this makes Iran's government more dangerous, not less so. His analogy was to a bank robber, with hostages, surrounded by police, but with terminal cancer that he knows will kill him in two weeks or less. Law enforcement would normally negotiate, with the expectation that the gunman would want to preserve his life. But, the fact that he knows that his death is imminent no matter what he does, substantially reduces his perception of the threat or punishment that others can inflict on him. In other words: 'If this country is going to be a very different kind of society in 25 years,' the thinking goes, 'then we must act (war, terrorism or other desperate measures) now, which is the only time when we will be the kind of society capable of having the impact that we wish to have.'
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Almost all countries collapsing
Adjusting not collapsing
I see you have been brainwashed to see any slow population decline as "collapse". Honey, 99% of countries have 5-10 times higher population today than they had for almost all their history. Stop being silly. When I was born human population was 5 billion, and the world was fine. When my mom was born, it was 2.5 billion, and the world was fine
Shut up
We always hear about how Japan is turning into a country of senior citizens. Then how come Japan is not included in the table shown on 22:00 ? Would appreciate an explanation ..
It already is and by 2050 those people will not be alive so yeah bit of a self adjustment there
If you think Irán fertility decline is big, look at Spain. Where 90% births are from immigrant women ( with or without "Spanish nationality ")
Where do you get this number from? According to the Instituto Nacional de Estadística 77% of births in spain were spanish nationality.
@KiHToG yep that's the point, "spanish nationality" not Spanish. Visit any hospital in Spain...
@@carlosbah4623 So you are just guessing and don't care spreading lies.
Citations needed. Not saying it's untrue, I'm saying I'm not convinced.
@TheNanoNinja the INE "official statistics say that around 66% are spanish women. But once a woman have the Spanish nationality, there's no way to determine her original nationality. Only the personal quests or some voluntary information requests made in some hospitals, and they can answer whatever they choose.
Israel's TFR is a weird contrast to that
Israel's economy is akin to Australia. The only thing that is cheap is housing and food
It's because they view having kids as a national and civic duty due to there being less Jews in the area ruled by Israel than Arabs. That plus their ostensibly democratic system is very perilous. So the only way out is to change the demography. This is a lot of incentive to have kids. Most countries cannot manufacture such an incentive
Slaves don't have the same incentive to have babies as free people.
The funny thing is that the fertility collapse is affecting everyone. Look at China and South Korea: vastly different systems, but similar problems.
You really thought you said something profound lmao
@@niloskhansic3663They really did. People are seriously unwell rn
He did @@niloskhansic3663
Yes which is why the most whitest of the whitest,The progressives of the progressive ,The most liberal,western, democratic,Blah blah scandanavians are being replaced by Egyptian,Libyan and Syrians,Very good
12:25 I'm guessing you meant Friday prayers.
Why would woman want to participate in a society that treats them as second-class citizens?
Because Islam requires them to.
Edit: I take that back as I misread your post. Islam does not require women to "participate in society." It requires them to serve the husband and make him kids. BTW, women usually are quite a bit more religious than men.
That's like asking why men would have sex with girls who hate them. It's Persia, they hate everyone, it's just that before times were good enough some of the inbreds survived
What society? Iran? Where they are more educated than many counterpart countries including the West?
I think people see rules about hijab in the media and think women are enraged and furious, but they are like women everywhere. They focus on the economy more than these kinds of things. Just look at the US and how most women voted for the anti-abortion party because of economic anxieties. Most women in Iran, like women everywhere, they want to do better in life, they seize economic opportunities, and the "second class citizen" talk is something they get too, if ever, after they've taken care of themselves and their families.
At around 12:30, I am guessing that is Friday prayer....
Any decline in birth rate on our planet of 8.2 billion people should be applauded!!
Yes they were black + brown or muslim then yes
You need to consider the age distribution as a result of declining birth rates. It adds a twist to simplely saying "fewer people good."
@@TheNanoNinja many people do consider it and it still changes nothing. We either adapt to these changes by changing our economic models or we'll keep suffering for no reason at all. No animal population on this planet grows indefinitely, it's not a realistic situation. Why are humans panicking over low birth rates when birth rates have been fluctuating since the dawn of time? People legit forget that we're animals, we are subject to the same laws of the universe as everyone else and we definitely don't ever see indefinite growth in any animal population. Why oh why did we create these systems based on constant replacement of humans when most people surely understand that constantly having replacement levels of reproduction is neither possible nor enforceable in the long run?
You clearly overlook the other impacts it will have to individual societies and humanity overall
But not in Iran
Iran can accommodate up to 150 million people
God willing, I will have 5 children as an Iranian
we should protect our race