SalamIran- National Report on Women 1995, Appendix 2

Tables (continued)

Table 4. Number of Iranian Women Seeking Employment in 1986 and 1991, by Age Group and Place of Residence

Age Group	1986			1991
	Rural	Urban	Total	Rural	Urban	Total
15-19	40,049	71,728	111,777	73,959	70,448	144,407
20-24	18,446	77,065	95,511	38,498	72,619	111,117
25-29	5,419	26,242	31,661	11,074	25,267	36,341
30-34	2,342	8,290	10,632	3,807	9,184	12,991
35-39	1,310	3,734	5,044	1,679	3,837	5,516
40-44	1,094	2,096	3,190	1,096	1,941	3,037
45-49	1,108	1,662	2,770	921	1,253	2,174
50-54	1,333	1,810	3,143	1,298	1,170	2,468
55-59	1,399	1,696	3,095	1,488	1,113	2,601
60-64	1,655	1,674	3,329	2,472	1,396	3,868
65 and over	3,069	3,515	6,584	6,112	3,861	9,973
Not known	143	81	224	153	103	256
Total	77,367	199,593	276,960	142,557	192,192	334,749

Source: Statistical Centre of Iran

Table 5. Number of Women-headed Households, by Age-group and
Household Size in 1991

Household	Household Size (No. of persons in the household)							Total
head age group	1	2	3	4	5	6	7 and >
< 20	2679	1960	1270	697	319	197	213	7335
20-29	4291	6532	7705	5768	3505	2005	1289	31,095
30-39	5470	8272	12913	14645	13122	10223	11174	75819
40-49	9992	13087	16653	16419	13435	10279	12423	92288
50-59	39221	32168	27387	19186	12023	6664	6310	142959
60 and >	191313	51356	22457	10908	5609	3139	2893	287675
Unspecified	588	81	53	40	42	25	38	867
Total	253554	113456	88438	67663	48055	32532	34340	638038

Source: Statistical Centre of Iran

Table 6. Population: Six-years and Over, by Gender, Age Group, Place of Residence and Literacy in 1976

Gender and	Rural		Urban		Country Total
Age Group	No. of Literate	Total	No. of Literate	Total	No. of Literate	Total
Male & Female	4,248,836	13,930,276	8,628,239	13,182,568	12,877,075	27,112,844
6-9	1,399,561	2,355,754	1,543,432	1,754,591	2,942,993	4,110,345
10-14	1,280,786	2,232,579	1,903,603	2,070,539	3,184,389	4,303,118
15-19	616,284	1,684,663	1,579,695	1,915,602	2,195,979	3,600,265
20-24	320,922	1,262,006	1,071,805	1,530,209	1,392,727	2,792,215
25-29	175,218	990,582	705,534	1,121,003	880,752	2,111,585
30-34	109,693	829,591	487,908	877,406	597,601	1,706,997
35-39	91,010	832,295	368,237	794,324	459,256	1,626,619
40-44	77,863	900,337	292,943	768,348	370,807	1,668,685
45-49	58,204	757,398	225,994	632,067	284,198	1,389,365
50-54	52,913	735,384	191,302	593,665	244,215	1,329,049
55-59	25,105	370,189	103,870	333,698	128,975	703,887
60-64	14,721	321,930	60,493	262,214	57,214	584,144
65 and over	36,547	657,598	93,422	528,902	119,969	1,186,470
Female	1,196,242	6,924,153	3,482,846	6,263,100	4,679,088	13,187,253
6-9	491,114	1,128,251	724,856	852,917	1,215,970	1,881,168
10-14	393,908	1,072,014	853,036	972,469	1,246,944	2,044,483
15-19	176,711	891,744	671,283	889,982	847,994	1,781,726
20-24	71,866	710,207	440,584	741,150	512,450	1,451,357
25-29	27,114	550,024	272,197	551,366	299,311	1,101,390
30-34	12,689	444,236	169,000	420,308	181,689	864,544
35-39	7,697	424,108	113,252	377,171	120,949	801,279
40-44	5,149	423,734	78,129	349,750	83,278	773,484
45-49	3,718	344,543	61,733	293,896	65,451	638,439
50-54	2,677	326,591	45,340	270,785	48,017	597,376
55-59	1,172	156,764	22,670	149,418	23,842	307,182
60-64	829	153,405	12,822	129,337	13,651	282,742
65 and over	1,598	297,532	17,944	264,551	19,542	562,083

Source: Statistical Centre of Iran

Table 7. Population: Six Years and Over, by Gender, Age Group, Place of Residence and Literacy in 1986

Gender and	Rural		Urban		Country Total
Age Group	No. of Literate	Total	No. of Literate	Total	No. of Literate	Total
Male & Female	8,370,643	17,306,861	15,506,666	21,210,303	23,913,195	38,708,879
6-9	2,118,857	2,869,079	2,691,895	2,929,501	4,821,944	5,834,586
10-14	2,254,848	2,937,811	2,759,264	2,932,971	5,024,613	5,903,300
15-19	1,573,078	2,376,295	2,493,674	2,792,207	4,072,868	5,192,202
20-24	926,755	1,706,021	2,041,401	2,472,330	2,971,388	4,193,724
25-29	554,746	1,397,325	1,682,373	2,240,682	2,238,777	3,652,297
30-34	330,610	1,116,981	1,238,343	1,798,189	1,569,891	2,927,983
35-39	177,082	836,177	787,579	1,270,671	965,210	2,117,211
40-44	112,051	684,168	526,789	962,535	639,141	1,655,351
45-49	90,572	703,343	391,235	874,253	482,153	1,585,398
50-54	76,391	749,701	302,985	840,286	379,677	1,599,018
55-59	56,644	634,326	226,472	696,827	283,374	1,337,746
60-64	48,911	582,823	178,025	594,910	227,184	1,184,632
65 and over	45,997	700,931	180,188	793,451	226,371	1,501,718
Unspecified	4,101	11,880	6,443	11,490	10,604	23,713
Female	3,083,890	8,488,490	6,741,941	10,303,627	9,835,299	18,886,724
6-9	903,576	1,401,386	1,293,632	1,434,446	2,201,057	2,853,849
10-14	936,823	1,419,303	1,304,672	1,414,371	2,244,619	2,849,667
15-19	616,874	1,165,950	1,160,051	1,353,836	1,778,427	2,531,838
20-24	306,548	839,927	939,197	1,241,814	1,246,301	2,090,109
25-29	155,759	706,264	718,254	1,098,664	874,190	1,812,658
30-34	77046	579,791	488,631	859,957	565,761	1,446,508
35-39	33,536	450,718	296,824	617,374	330,407	1,073,398
40-44	17,371	357,891	180,374	459,462	197,769	821,648
45-49	11,336	351,215	119,124	411,333	130,474	766,173
50-54	8,225	348,328	83,136	390,051	91,379	742,278
55-59	5,755	286,434	63,722	333,309	69,491	622,318
60-64	4,189	255,638	44,108	274,386	48,310	532,768
65 and over	5,428	320,808	47,656	409,930	53,105	733,802
Unspecified	1,424	4,837	2,560	6,494	4,009	9,710

Source: Statistical Centre of Iran

Table 8. Population: Six Years and Over, by Gender, Age Group, Place
of Residence and Literacy in 1991

Gender and	Rural		Urban		Country Total
Age Group	No. of Literate	Total	No. of Literate	Total	No. of Literate	Total
Male & Female	12,128,006	19,046,594	21,725,327	26,521,349	33,966,234	45,855,787
6-9	2,778,338	3,110,499	3,824,268	4,034,598	6,635,437	7,195,367
10-14	3,027,541	3,379,129	3,993,328	4,112,463	7,055276	7,547,131
15-19	2,259,615	2,711,238	2,994,156	3,155,352	5,274,528	5,908,903
20-24	1,485,730	2,016,151	2,631,322	2,902,788	4,128,385	4,947,260
25-29	865,322	1,425,535	2,209,252	2,561,194	3,079,208	4,005,278
30-34	584,174	1,224,912	1,832,399	2,261,847	2,419,208	3,504,220
35-39	384,011	1,005,575	1,396,316	1,846,018	1,782,175	2,866,669
40-44	216,519	756,564	876,488	1,268,676	1,094,160	2,037,477
45-49	142,493	611,451	589,721	957,759	732,944	1,577,983
50-54	118,763	667,096	452,301	893,314	571,759	1,570,622
55-59	95,897	643,962	337,195	790,129	433,667	1,442,929
60-64	72,123	617,557	245,516	676,239	318,233	1,303,390
65 and over	90,411	857,447	326,873	1,022,442	417,876	1,890,193
Unspecified	7,069	19,478	16,192	38,530	23,378	58,365
Female	5,014,354	9,247,645	9,822,047	12,794,691	14,874,752	22,180,760
6-9	1,306,413	1,521,287	1,860,842	1,974,217	3,181,396	3,520,350
10-14	1,376,808	1,629,468	1,919,156	1,989,545	3,308,948	3,645,673
15-19	983,871	1,300,908	1,428,660	1,530,524	2,418,991	2,851,294
20-24	584,475	962,300	1,261,376	1,451,319	1,848,479	2,426,948
25-29	318,620	711,202	1,022,843	1,271,650	1,342,443	1,992,785
30-34	189,130	616,358	804,048	1,098,757	993,572	1,724,288
35-39	109,559	519,400	573,183	877,206	683,007	1,404,331
40-44	53,961	402,731	338,157	600,962	392,253	1,010,018
45-49	31,074	320,370	212,811	454,831	243,973	779,684
50-54	21,422	329,617	144,695	414,714	166,180	749,023
55-59	14,213	292,130	96,820	353,897	111,086	649,646
60-64	9,537	271,596	67,531	304,923	77,113	580,072
65 and over	12,442	361,705	85,171	458,657	97,688	824,440
Unspecified	2,829	8,573	6,754	13,489	9,623	22,208

Source: Statistical Centre of Iran