According to the available statistics shows that national poverty line has decreased from 13.5% in 1999 to 7%.
Statistics show that the percentage of the children under five years of age who are suffering from underweight has decreased 15.8% to 5%.
The percentage of underweight children is 13.7% in rural areas while 4.1% in urban areas.
Minimum 7% of the population is living on the minimum level of dietary.
​The ratio of children in the 6-10 age group enrolled in primary schools increased and surpassed 98% in 2005 compared to the 85% in 1990.
The proportion of people starting grade 1 who reach grade 5 shows an improving trend. While in 1990 of every 100 people who had enrolled in grade one, around 13 would have left school prior to reaching grade five, in 2005 this number had decreased to less than 6.6%. The percentage of elementary education increased from 87.1% in 1990 to 93.4% in 2005. The rate for women has improved from 96.2 percent to 96.7 percent (2006-2005), but improved from 81.1% to 96.7% (1990- 2005).
The ratio of female students enrolled in primary, secondary and tertiary education has increased from 79.2 % (1990) to 94.3% in 2005.
The ratio of women to men in higher education has increased up to 110.5 percent in 2002 from 37.4 in 1990.
The ratio of literate women to men in the 15-24 age group has increased by 10.7 percent, rising to 98.6 in 2005 from 87.9 in 1990.
The percentage of seats held by women during four terms of the national Parliament has never exceeded 5 percent.
The country has successfully been able to decrease child mortality rates from 68 in 1000 live births in 1990 to 36 in the year 2000.
Iran has successfully reduced its infant mortality rate, decreasing the rate by 54%, from 52 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 28 per 1,000 live births in 2000.
The percentage of one-year-old children immunized against measles has increased to 99% in 2003 from 85 percent in 1990.
The maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births in Iran has decreased to 24.6 deaths in 2005 from 91 in 1989.
The proportion of births has increased from 89.6 percent in 2000 to about 97.3 in 2005.
Fertility rate has also almost achieved from​
children per 1000 women in 1996 to 26.8 children per 1000 women in 2000.​
The total number of registered HIV/AIDS infected cases was calculated as 12,698 by September 2005, of which 94.5 percent were men.
Cases where the mode of transmission is unknown were estimated at 26.2 %, injecting drug use at 64.2 % is the highest mode of transmission responsible for the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country and the next highest mode at 7.4 % is through sexual contact.
Malaria has fallen sharply to 30 cases per 100,000 in 2005 from 94 in 1996; however, it has increased to 35.2 cases per 100,000 in 2003.
​The ratio of the area protected for maintaining biological diversity to total surface area of the country has jumped from 4.6 percent in 1997 to 7.32 percent in 2005
Energy use per $1 GDP (PPP) has increased slightly from 0.309 kilogram in 1990 to 0.327 in 2006.
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita have jumped up to 5,284 Kg in 2006 from 4,002 in 1996.
Consumption of ozone-depleting CFCs has increased from 5,883 tons in 1997 to about 2,221 in 2005.
The proportion of the population with sustainable access to an improved water source has increased from 89.6 percent in 1990 up to 93 in 2000.
The percentage of the population with access to the sanitation has significantly increased from 64.3 percent in 1990 to 82.8 in 2000.
The proportion of debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services has decreased in Iran from 63.2 percent in 1997 to 33.7 in 2005.
The unemployment rate among 15-24 year olds was reduced to 19.2 in 1996 from 23.8 percent in 1990 but it increased back up to 21.6 percent in 2005.
The number of telephone lines has soared from 4.04 per 100 population in 1990 to 29.6 in 2005.
Similarly, the number of personal computers per 100 population was increased from 6.28 in 2000 to 10.37 in 2006.
The number of Internet users per 100 population was 9.87 persons in 2006.