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Population in Iran compared to the Seychelles: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Iran was 91,567,738 in 2024 vs 121,354 people in the Seychelles in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Iran's population is 93,020,793 people compared to 125,181 in the Seychelles.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 743 times bigger than the Seychelles'.
  • Iran is ranked the 17th most populous country in the world, while the Seychelles is the 181st.
  • The countries together account for 1.13% of the world: 1.13% for Iran vs 0.002% for the Seychelles.
  • For the last 10 years, Iran has had an average growth rate of +1.19% per year vs +2.9% in the Seychelles.
  • Since 2005, the population of Iran has increased from 71.8M people to 93M (29.5% growth), while the Seychelles has grown from 82.9K to 125K (51.1% growth).
  • Iran is projected to reach its peak in 2053 at 102M people compared to the peak of 133K people in 2042 for the Seychelles.

Iran vs Seychelles: live population counter

Iran Seychelles
Current population
93020793
125181
Population rank 17/197 181/197
Percent of world population 1.13% 0.002%
One net population change
32.9 seconds
5.54 hours
One birth every
26.9 seconds
5.63 hours
One death every
1.24 minutes
10 hours
One migration net change every
2.76 minutes
5.01 hours
Annual migration change +190,156 +1,747
Daily growth/decline +2,627 +4
Annual growth/decline +959,031 +1,581
Annual growth/decline rate +1.06% +1.32%
Population growth rate rank 100/197 83/197

Iran and the Seychelles: population history and growth rate by year chart

Iran
Population

Growth rate
Seychelles
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Iran Seychelles Iran Seychelles
1960 21,470,434 41,700 - -
1961 22,125,726 42,889 3.05% 2.85%
1962 22,807,907 44,042 3.08% 2.69%
1963 23,519,005 45,176 3.12% 2.57%
1964 24,262,859 46,322 3.16% 2.54%
1965 25,036,978 47,500 3.19% 2.54%
1966 25,829,270 48,699 3.16% 2.52%
1967 26,628,432 49,911 3.09% 2.49%
1968 27,437,391 51,134 3.04% 2.45%
1969 28,273,482 52,365 3.05% 2.41%
1970 29,145,100 53,600 3.08% 2.36%
1971 30,029,071 54,695 3.03% 2.04%
1972 30,921,179 56,029 2.97% 2.44%
1973 31,839,838 56,892 2.97% 1.54%
1974 32,796,463 57,937 3% 1.84%
1975 33,802,973 59,292 3.07% 2.34%
1976 34,837,271 60,504 3.06% 2.04%
1977 35,933,181 61,786 3.15% 2.12%
1978 37,126,535 62,150 3.32% 0.59%
1979 38,424,952 62,686 3.5% 0.86%
1980 39,842,324 63,261 3.69% 0.92%
1981 41,989,312 64,035 5.39% 1.22%
1982 44,272,141 64,413 5.44% 0.59%
1983 46,029,535 64,335 3.97% -0.12%
1984 47,793,998 64,717 3.83% 0.59%
1985 49,582,289 65,244 3.74% 0.81%
1986 51,446,045 65,652 3.76% 0.63%
1987 53,323,493 68,499 3.65% 4.34%
1988 55,072,694 68,755 3.28% 0.37%
1989 56,704,914 69,167 2.96% 0.6%
1990 58,380,092 69,507 2.95% 0.49%
1991 59,986,931 70,439 2.75% 1.34%
1992 61,184,983 70,763 2% 0.46%
1993 61,403,543 72,253 0.36% 2.11%
1994 61,520,598 74,205 0.19% 2.7%
1995 62,205,567 75,304 1.11% 1.48%
1996 62,881,300 76,417 1.09% 1.48%
1997 63,639,638 77,319 1.21% 1.18%
1998 64,519,859 78,846 1.38% 1.97%
1999 65,445,391 80,410 1.43% 1.98%
2000 66,418,659 81,131 1.49% 0.9%
2001 67,452,005 81,202 1.56% 0.09%
2002 68,011,317 83,723 0.83% 3.1%
2003 68,769,340 82,781 1.11% -1.13%
2004 70,256,316 82,475 2.16% -0.37%
2005 71,828,455 82,858 2.24% 0.46%
2006 73,392,747 84,600 2.18% 2.1%
2007 74,602,648 85,033 1.65% 0.51%
2008 75,514,204 86,956 1.22% 2.26%
2009 76,457,825 87,298 1.25% 0.39%
2010 77,420,842 89,770 1.26% 2.83%
2011 78,383,598 87,441 1.24% -2.59%
2012 79,370,580 88,303 1.26% 0.99%
2013 80,414,686 89,949 1.32% 1.86%
2014 81,502,045 91,359 1.35% 1.57%
2015 82,619,362 93,419 1.37% 2.25%
2016 83,812,228 94,677 1.44% 1.35%
2017 85,026,754 95,843 1.45% 1.23%
2018 86,117,998 96,762 1.28% 0.96%
2019 87,051,648 97,625 1.08% 0.89%
2020 87,723,443 98,462 0.77% 0.86%
2021 88,455,488 99,258 0.83% 0.81%
2022 89,524,246 119,878 1.21% 20.8%
2023 90,608,707 119,773 1.21% -0.09%
2024 91,567,738 121,354 1.06% 1.32%
2025 92,417,685 123,549 0.93% 1.81%
2026 93,168,494 125,581 0.81% 1.64%
2027 93,838,646 127,380 0.72% 1.43%
2028 94,440,024 128,883 0.64% 1.18%
2029 94,985,102 130,011 0.58% 0.87%
2030 95,486,672 130,635 0.53% 0.48%
2031 95,960,723 130,989 0.5% 0.27%
2032 96,415,457 131,305 0.47% 0.24%
2033 96,850,659 131,578 0.45% 0.21%
2034 97,271,044 131,816 0.43% 0.18%
2035 97,679,258 132,027 0.42% 0.16%
2036 98,075,324 132,202 0.41% 0.13%
2037 98,458,805 132,348 0.39% 0.11%
2038 98,828,318 132,467 0.38% 0.09%
2039 99,182,806 132,552 0.36% 0.06%
2040 99,524,286 132,631 0.34% 0.06%
2041 99,853,719 132,681 0.33% 0.04%
2042 100,167,076 132,700 0.31% 0.01%
2043 100,462,092 132,698 0.29% -0.001%
2044 100,737,592 132,665 0.27% -0.03%
2045 100,990,622 132,613 0.25% -0.04%
2046 101,219,689 132,531 0.23% -0.06%
2047 101,424,009 132,415 0.2% -0.09%
2048 101,601,932 132,264 0.18% -0.11%
2049 101,748,544 132,085 0.14% -0.14%
2050 101,862,002 131,885 0.11% -0.15%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Iran increased by 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth), while the Seychelles gained 10,561 people (a 12.7% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Iran gained 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth), while the Seychelles' population increased by 31,762 (a 34% growth).

Iran was ranked 17th most populous country in 2005 and is still 17th in 2025. The Seychelles was ranked 184th in 2005 and ranked 181st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Iran's population will grow by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people with a rank change from 17th to 18th. The population of the Seychelles will increase by 5.36% to 131,885 people and will still be ranked 181st.

Biggest cities by population

Iran
City Population
Tehran 8.69M
Mashhad 3M
Isfahan 1.96M
Karaj 1.59M
Shiraz 1.57M
Tabriz 1.56M
Qom 1.2M
Ahvaz 1.18M
Kermanshah 947K
Urmia 736K
Seychelles
City Population
Victoria 24.7K

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