Namafar Center for Data Mining and Policy Research is a research centre in Tehran. Since 2019 it has collected statistics on Iran's cultural and creative industries and published them with their sources. This site is the English and Arabic edition. The Persian site, namafar.ir, has the full collection of charts and reports.
Data you can use
The pages below bring together figures on one subject, with charts, tables and the source of each figure. Where a page has a table, it can be downloaded as a CSV file.
Topic pages
- Box office statistics and data for Iran
- Book publishing statistics and data for Iran
- Data and reports on Iran's cultural budget
- Statistics and data on Iran's video game market
- Foreign tourist arrivals and tourism statistics for Iran
Data tables and analyses
- Cultural budget as a share of general budget spending in Iran and five other countries CSV
- Iranian YouTube channels with the most subscribers CSV
- The most-watched Iranian films in cinemas since 1364 (1985/86) CSV
- Iranian and foreign publishers at the Tehran International Book Fair, 1367–1402 (1988–2024) CSV
- Iran's hand-knotted carpet exports from 1397 to 1404 (2018–2026) CSV
- Foreign patients and medical tourism in Iran CSV
- Foreign and Iraqi students in Iranian universities CSV
- Number of mosques in Iran by province in a 2023 report CSV
- Tehran Auction results and records from 2012 to 2026 CSV
The site also has charts, analyses and dashboards on each industry.
Where the figures come from
Each figure links to the place it was first published, such as a ministry, the customs administration, an event organiser or a news agency. When sources give different figures, the page says so and explains which figure it uses.
Years are given in the Iranian solar calendar with the Gregorian equivalent, for example 1403 (2024/25). The Iranian year starts on 20 or 21 March. Prices are in tomans unless stated otherwise, and one toman is ten rials.
Citing Namafar
You are welcome to quote and cite Namafar figures and charts with the name “Namafar” and a link to the page. Republishing a whole data set, report or dashboard needs our written permission. The details are in the terms of use.
A citation for a data page could look like this.
Namafar Center for Data Mining and Policy Research. (2026). Tehran Auction results and records from 2012 to 2026 [Data set]. https://namafar.com/en/insights/tehran-auction-results
Each chart, analysis and report page also has a “How to cite” box with citations in five styles and RIS, EndNote and BibTeX files.
Reporting an error
If you find a figure that does not match its source, write to info@namafar.com with the page address and the figure. We check it against the source, correct the page if needed, and update the date on it.
Asking for data
Namafar holds more data than this site shows, much of it in Persian. If you need figures that are not here, write to info@namafar.com and describe the subject, the years and how you plan to use the data. We will tell you what we have. Some data comes from paid services or from our clients and cannot be shared.
Contact
Researchers and journalists can write to info@namafar.com in English, Arabic or Persian. For other questions, use the contact page.
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