| Population | 38,146,025 (July 2016 est.) |
| Age structure | 0-14 years: 39.88% (male 7,766,832/female 7,445,633) 15-24 years: 19.07% (male 3,703,302/female 3,572,702) 25-54 years: 33.7% (male 6,499,345/female 6,354,506) 55-64 years: 3.96% (male 720,976/female 790,301) 65 years and over: 3.39% (male 574,521/female 717,907) (2016 est.) |
| Dependency ratios | total dependency ratio: 78.7% youth dependency ratio: 73.2% elderly dependency ratio: 5.5% potential support ratio: 18.3% (2015 est.) |
| Median age | total: 19.9 years male: 19.6 years female: 20.2 years (2016 est.) |
| Population growth rate | 2.87% (2016 est.) |
| Birth rate | 30.9 births/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Death rate | 3.8 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Net migration rate | 1.5 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.) |
| Urbanization | urban population: 69.5% of total population (2015) rate of urbanization: 3.01% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.) |
| Major cities - population | BAGHDAD (capital) 6.643 million; Mosul 1.694 million; Erbil 1.166 million; Basra 1.019 million; As Sulaymaniyah 1.004 million; Najaf 889,000 (2015) |
| Sex ratio | at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female 0-14 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 15-24 years: 1.04 male(s)/female 25-54 years: 1.02 male(s)/female 55-64 years: 0.91 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.8 male(s)/female total population: 0.8 male(s)/female (2016 est.) |
| Infant mortality rate | total: 37.5 deaths/1,000 live births male: 40.6 deaths/1,000 live births female: 34.2 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.) |
| Life expectancy at birth | total population: 74.9 years male: 72.6 years female: 77.2 years (2016 est.) |
| Total fertility rate | 4.06 children born/woman (2016 est.) |
| Contraceptive prevalence rate | 52.5% (2011) |
| HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate | NA |
| HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS | NA |
| HIV/AIDS - deaths | NA |
| Drinking water source | improved: urban: 93.8% of population rural: 70.1% of population total: 86.6% of population unimproved: urban: 6.1% of population rural: 31.5% of population total: 14.6% of population (2015 est.) |
| Sanitation facility access | improved: urban: 86.4% of population rural: 83.8% of population total: 85.6% of population unimproved: urban: 13.6% of population rural: 16.2% of population total: 14.4% of population (2015 est.) |
| Major infectious diseases | degree of risk: intermediate food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever (2016) |
| Nationality | noun: Iraqi(s) adjective: Iraqi |
| Ethnic groups | Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian, other 5% |
| Religions | Muslim (official) 99% (Shia 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian 0.8%, Hindu <0.1, Buddhist <0.1, Jewish <0.1, folk religion <0.1, unafilliated 0.1, other <0.1 note: while there has been voluntary relocation of many Christian families to northern Iraq, recent reporting indicates that the overall Christian population may have dropped by as much as 50 percent since the fall of the SADDAM Husayn regime in 2003, with many fleeing to Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon (2010 est.) |
| Languages | Arabic (official), Kurdish (official), Turkmen (a Turkish dialect) and Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic) are official in areas where they constitute a majority of the population), Armenian |
| Literacy | definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 79.7% male: 85.7% female: 73.7% (2015 est.) |
| Child labor - children ages 5-14 | total number: 715,737 percentage: 11% (2006 est.) |
| Education expenditures | NA |
| Maternal mortality rate | 50 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.) |
| Children under the age of 5 years underweight | 8.5% (2011) |
| Health expenditures | 5.5% of GDP (2014) |
| Physicians density | 0.61 physicians/1,000 population (2010) |
| Hospital bed density | 1.3 beds/1,000 population (2012) |
| Obesity - adult prevalence rate | 21.2% (2014) |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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