According to 1402 (2023/24) statistics, households in Bushehr Province, by allocating 12.05 percent of their total expenditures to cultural affairs, topped this table, followed by Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and Zanjan provinces.
At the opposite end, Tehran Province, at only 5.39 percent, has the smallest share in terms of the ratio of cultural spending. Kerman, Alborz, and Semnan provinces are also in the lowest ranks.
Also, if we consider the total of all household cultural expenditures at the provincial level, Tehran, by spending 85.45 hemt (trillion tomans), has a striking gap with other provinces and ranks first.
These statistics draw a fresh picture of cultural consumption patterns in Iran; a picture that may differ from many of our mental assumptions.
For more details on this topic, see the report on Iranians' cultural spending on the Namafar website.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian