• Population – as of 2008
  • Middle East: 197,000,000
  • Iran: 66,000,000 (approximately 55% of total Middle East population)
• Demographics
  • Middle East
    • Age Structure
      • Youth under 24: 55%
  • Iran
    • Age Structure
      • 0-14 years: 22.3%
      • 15-64 years: 72.3%
      • 65 years and over: 5.4%
    • Median Age
      • Male: 26.2 years
      • Female: 26.7 years
• Largest Middle East economies in terms of GDP-PPP (International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook Database)
  • Turkey ($ 887,964,000,000)
  • Iran ($ 752,967,000,000)
  • Saudi Arabia ($ 564,561,000,000)

The statistics clearly show the potential of the Middle East market in the telemarketing industry. Middle East can now be compared to the US and Canada in the 1980s in terms of Direct Response Marketing.