Iran's Statistics Centre Says This Year's Population and Housing Census Uses Administrative Records

Goudarzi, head of the Statistical Centre of Iran, said in a Statistics and Planning Day message published by Mehr News Agency on Friday, 23 October 2026 (1 Aban 1405) that the country's 1405 population and housing census is being carried out using an administrative-records-based approach. He described the change as one of this year's developments in the national statistical system and said it uses administrative data, specialist staff, modern statistical methods and technology.

He said the shift is a first step and will bring difficulties and complications, and that the transformation will continue in 1406. His message supplied neither a timetable for releasing results nor a population estimate. The method used to collect census data matters for official population and housing statistics, which inform planning for services and infrastructure.