Iranian Peoples - Demographics

Demographics

See also: Iranian plateau, Demographics of Iran, Ethnic minorities in Iran, Demographics of Afghanistan, Demographics of Tajikistan, Iraqi people, Demographics of Iraq, Kurdistan, and Ossetia Further information: Iranian citizens abroad and Kurdish diaspora

There are an estimated 150 to 200 million native speakers of Iranian languages, the five major groups of Persians, Lurs, Kurds, Baloch, and Pashtuns accounting for about 90% of this number. Currently, most of these Iranian peoples live in Iran, the Caucasus (mainly Ossetia, other parts of Georgia, and Azerbaijan), Iraqi Kurdistan and Kurdish majority populated areas of Turkey, Iran and Syria, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan.

Due to recent migrations, there are also large communities of speakers of Iranian languages in Europe, the Americas, and Israel.

The following is a list of peoples that speak Iranian languages with the respective groups's core areas of settlements and their estimated sizes (in millions):

People	region	population
Persian-speaking peoples Aimaqs Hazara Huwala Bahraini Persians Iranian Persians Tajiks (Central Asian Persians) Farsiwan Tats of the Caucasus	Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, Bahrain	60 72–85
Pashtuns Durrani Ghilzai Yusufzai Wazir	Pakistan, Afghanistan	32 35–40
Kurds Yazidis Kalhurs Laks Dimli	Turkey, Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria	32 23–38
Baluchis	Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan	15 15-20
Gilakis & Mazanderanis	Iran	07 5–10
Lurs & Bakhtiaris	Iran	026 6
Laks	Iran	010 0.5
Pamiri people Sariqoli Wakhi "Tajiks of China" Shughni	Tajikistan, Afghanistan, China (Xinjiang), Pakistan	009 0.9
Talysh Tats of Iran	Azerbaijan, Iran	009 0.5
Ossetians Jasz Digor Iron	South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia (North Ossetia), Hungary	007 0.7
Yaghnobi	Uzbekistan and Tajikistan (Zerafshan region)	007 0.025
Kumzari	Oman (Musandam)	007 0.021