Population Policy in Iran (Scoping Review)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD Candidate in Public Policy Tarbiat Modares University

2 Professor, Public Administration, university of Tarbiat Modares

3 Department of Demography, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran

4 Assistant Professor, Public Administration. University of Tarbiat Modares

5 Associate professor of demography, UT

10.22059/ijsp.2023.355990.671111

Abstract

In Iran, a number of studies have been conducted on population policies in recent years. By examining these studies, it is evident that no review study has examined these studies and provided a clearer picture of the state of population policy studies. Most of the articles were written in documentary and descriptive form and in some periods (2010 and 2015) were more published, which can be caused by the persuasion of researchers through some factors such as the desire of politicians to change the population policy and also communicating the general policies of the population. The conflict of opinions in population policy approaches in Iran is evident, most of the studies have agreed to increase the population policy in the target period. Analyzing the reason for this difference of opinion, the discourse of each of these approaches, and conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses about population policies as well as designing the optimal model of population policy-making in can be suggested

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