Average penis size in Iran ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท

What the published literature reports for Iran, which study it comes from, and how much weight that figure can carry.

The figure

Stretched length ยท Iran

11.58 cm

4.56 in

That's 1.35 cm below the worldwide average of 12.93 cm.

Near the bottom here: only 13% of the 24 countries come in lower.

Source: Mehraban et al., 2007 ยท 1,500 men ยท Measured by clinician.

The study behind it

The figure comes from Mehraban et al., 2007, which measured 1,500 men. Method: measured by clinician.

This study did not record a bone-pressed measurement, which means it will read roughly a centimetre lower than a bone-pressed study of the same men. When you compare this row against a bone-pressed one, part of what you are seeing is the ruler.

A sample of 1,500 men puts this in the mid-range of the studies used here.

How it compares

Iran ranks #21 of the 24 countries in the game. That is 1.19 cm below the median of this list (12.77 cm).

Both of those comparisons are against a list of two dozen countries chosen by which studies exist, not by any sampling of the world. Treat the rank as a fact about this dataset rather than a fact about the planet.

Countries with a similar published figure

CountryStretchedMen measured
Greece12.18 cm4.80 in52
South Korea12.03 cm4.74 in1,767
Iran11.58 cm4.56 in1,500
Tanzania11.5 cm4.53 in93

The countries sitting either side of this one. Note how small the gaps are next to the centimetre a bone-pressed measurement adds on its own.

When Iran came up

Iran has been the daily puzzle once so far. Each of those days has its own archive page.

What this figure is not

It is not a description of any individual man from Iran. The spread between individual men inside a single country is several times larger than the gap between any two countries on this list, which means a national average carries almost no information about a person.

It is also not medical advice or a benchmark to measure yourself against. If size is something you have been worrying about, the guide on what the pooled data actually shows is a more useful page than this one, and a doctor is more useful than either.

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