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At the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, 80,000–100,000 Jews were living in Iran. From then on, Jewish emigration from Iran dramatically increased, as about 20,000 Jews left within several months of the revolution alone.[43] The majority of Iran's Jewish population, some 60,000 Jews, emigrated in the aftermath of the revolution, of whom 35,000 went to the United States, 20,000 to Israel, and 5,000 to Europe (mainly to the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland).[50]
Some sources put the Iranian Jewish population in the mid and late 1980s as between 50,000–60,000.[51] An estimate based on the 1986 census put the figure considerably higher for the same time, around 55,000.[52] From the mid-1990s to the present there has been more uniformity in the figures, with most government sources since then estimating roughly 25,000 Jews remaining in Iran.[53][54][55][56] These less recent official figures are considered bloated, and the Jewish community may not amount to more than 10,000.[57] A 2012 census put the figure at about 8,756.[58]