Over 428,000 births registered in 6 months

Tehran Times · 2026-11-04 11:27 UTC

TEHRAN – A total of 428,664 births were registered in the country in the first six months of the current Iranian calendar year that started on March 21, the Civil Registration Organization has announced.

TEHRAN – A total of 428,664 births were registered in the country in the first six months of the current Iranian calendar year that started on March 21, the Civil Registration Organization has announced.

For every 100 girls born in the country, 108 boys are born. However, the number of births has declined compared to 460,000 cases registered last year, ISNA reported.

Sistan-Baluchestan province, with a crude birth rate of 22.1 births per 1,000 inhabitants, had the highest number of births in the first six months of the year, followed by South Khorasan (15.1), Khuzestan (14.3), Hormozgan (13.7), and Yazd (12.6) provinces.

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