Over 530,000 Iranians Died in 2021; ‘160,000 More’ Than Annual Average

Iran’s civil registration statistics show that the death toll in the Persian year 1400 (2021-2022) reached over 530,000 people.

This comes while in the pre-coronavirus period, the average annual death rate in the country over four years from 1395 to 1398 (2016-2019) was approximately 370,000 people.

Accordingly, the death rate in the country last year increased by 43 percent compared to the pre-coronavirus period.

Statistics from the year 1399 (2020-2021) also show that the death toll in Iran was 507,000 people. Thus, over the past two years, nearly 300,000 more people have died than the average annual death rate in the pre-coronavirus period.

Iran’s Ministry of Health claims that since the outbreak of coronavirus, only 140,000 people in Iran have been victims of this virus. However, civil registration statistics show that the death toll resulting from coronavirus infection was at least twice the official figures.

Previously, some officials, including Alireza Zali, head of Tehran’s coronavirus task force, accused the Ministry of Health of “concealing” coronavirus statistics.

He had said in Mordad of last year: “When experts from the World Health Organization came to Iran, instead of consulting with them, we constantly asked them to praise Iran’s health system in the media. We concealed mortality statistics from the World Health Organization.”

Source: Radio Farda