Study 38
Timeline
Event markers and optional external signals
Country context map
Editorial atlas view of Iran: capital, major cities, and regional orientation.
Minimal map style by design: this layer is built for lightweight context and future overlays (regional indicators, elections, migration, trade routes, climate, and travel/photo notes).
Some series are annual WDI indicators, while market series are aligned using annual averages. These charts are intended for broad timing and pattern comparison, not day-by-day matching.
This view keeps the long-run series visible while highlighting a selected historical window. The shaded band is a visual aid for comparison; it does not imply causality.
1. CPI inflation
WDI FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG — Iran.
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2. Real GDP growth
WDI NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — Iran.
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External debt (USD)
External debt measures obligations to non-resident creditors. It does not include domestic debt.
No data available
GDP decomposition (real)
Oil & gas rents vs remainder of GDP
WDI NY.GDP.MKTP.KD (GDP, constant 2015 US$), NY.GDP.PETR.RT.ZS (oil rents % of GDP), and NY.GDP.NGAS.RT.ZS (natural gas rents % of GDP).
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3. Consumption, investment, and GDP (real)
WDI constant 2015 US$: NE.CON.TOTL.KD, NE.GDI.TOTL.KD, NY.GDP.MKTP.KD — Iran. Real series only (separate from nominal chart).
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6. Exchange rate: official vs open market (annual)
Official: annual policy/WDI series; open: calendar-year mean of the merged open-market series.
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Percent spread is shown only for years with both an official rate and an annual mean open-market rate.
7. Broad money (M2) growth vs CPI inflation
Broad money (M2) growth and CPI inflation (same definitions as the M2 study).
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8. Imports & exports (% of GDP)
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9. Manufacturing & industry (% of GDP)
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Welfare and distribution
Poverty headcount
Poverty lines are in constant 2021 PPP dollars (inflation-adjusted).
World Bank international poverty lines for Iran (share of population below each line). Threshold text follows WDI metadata (PPP revisions).
No poverty headcount observations in this outer window (SI.POV.DDAY / SI.POV.LMIC are sparse in WDI).
Political participation
Iran presidential election turnout and votes cast.
Presidential elections only (1980, 1981, 1985, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017, 2021, 2024).
Election participation
Election turnout reflects official reported participation in presidential elections. It should not be interpreted as a direct measure of political support.
Source: Iran Data Portal, Persian Wikipedia (Iran presidential election pages), International IDEA Voter Turnout Database, Iran Ministry of Interior (official aggregates)
Sparse election-year points are shown as reported; no interpolation is applied between elections.
Gender breakdown is not shown because consistent male/female voter counts are not available in the current source series.
What this chart shows (in this dataset)
- The shaded band marks your selected focus years on the same Gregorian keys as the series; axis labels can show Solar Hijri via the page toggle without changing the underlying dates.
- Open-market FX is shown as a calendar-year mean of the merged series; official FX is annual—use the view for era-level timing, not day-by-day alignment with WDI.
- Minimum-wage / real-wage series may start later than the outer window; the wage panel only plots overlapping years returned by the wage API.
- A slim indigo band marks calendar year 1979 (Islamic Revolution context); it is not a presidency preset.
Sources & units
Consumption, investment, GDP (nominal)
World Bank WDI (World Bank)
Unit: current US$ (NE.CON.TOTL.CD, NE.GDI.TOTL.CD, NY.GDP.MKTP.CD)
GDP decomposition (proxy)
World Bank WDI (World Bank)
Unit: current US$ — NY.GDP.MKTP.CD, NY.GDP.PETR.RT.ZS; derived non-oil / oil proxy levels
Consumption, investment, GDP (real)
World Bank WDI (World Bank)
Unit: constant 2015 US$ (NE.CON.TOTL.KD, NE.GDI.TOTL.KD, NY.GDP.MKTP.KD)
External debt
World Bank World Development Indicators (World Bank)
Unit: % of GDP (derived from DT.DOD.DECT.CD / NY.GDP.MKTP.CD); fallback current US$ (DT.DOD.DECT.CD)
Exchange rates
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Unit: toman/USD
Poverty headcount
World Bank WDI (World Bank)
Unit: % of population (SI.POV.DDAY; SI.POV.LMIC in chart legend)
WDI/IMF may omit some years; charts only plot years with valid values.
In simple terms
This view can compare late Pahlavi and Islamic Republic economic periods where data is available. Long-run series stay visible while a selected window is highlighted. The shaded band is a visual aid for comparison; it does not imply causality.
AI-assisted interpretation
Generated from the visible series and selected period. Interpretive, not causal.
There are no annual inflation or GDP-growth points in the selected outer window yet; widen the window or wait for data to load to see a summary here.
All series are annual; years without a published value show as gaps, not interpolated points. Treat timing overlap as descriptive context—not evidence that one indicator mechanically caused another.
Quick takeaways
- Pick one shaded focus window and read the small charts as parallel timelines: similar slopes can reflect common shocks or policy phases, not proof that one series caused another.
- Annual WDI gaps are real: when a year is missing, the chart leaves space rather than inventing a bridge—especially for survey-based welfare indicators.