🇮🇶Iraq

Baghdad

Middle East & North Africa

Upper middle income

IRQ

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Population

47M

2.1%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

3.22

births/woman

Life Expectancy

72.4y

GDP / capita

$5.4K

Pop. Growth

2.10%

Net Migration

-1.1K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Iraq by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇸🇾Syrian Arab Republic258.1K(74.9%)

41×

🇹🇷Turkiye21K(6.1%)

+17%

🇮🇷

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male23.6MTotal 47M23.4MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

9.5

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇪🇬Egypt, Arab Rep.14.7K(4.3%)

+0%

🇵🇸West Bank and Gaza12.3K(3.6%)

−7%

🇯🇴Jordan10.6K(3.1%)

+0%

🇸🇩Sudan3.9K(1.1%)

−0%

🇾🇪Yemen, Rep.2K(0.6%)

+0%

🇱🇧Lebanon1.6K(0.5%)

+0%

🇪🇷Eritrea824(0.2%)

−0%

🇵🇰Pakistan698(0.2%)

+0%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia690(0.2%)

+0%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Iraq diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Iraq who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇹🇷Turkiye403.7K(17.5%)

+800%

🇺🇸United States272.4K(11.8%)

+67%

🇩🇪Germany263.9K(11.4%)

+185%

🇯🇴Jordan219.2K(9.5%)

−59%

🇸🇾Syrian Arab Republic209.4K(9.1%)

−81%

🇸🇪Sweden150.5K(6.5%)

+25%

🇦🇺Australia112.5K(4.9%)

+116%

🇬🇧United Kingdom99.2K(4.3%)

+40%

🇨🇦Canada98.4K(4.3%)

+106%

🇮🇱Israel77.7K(3.4%)

+22%

🇱🇾Libya77.3K(3.3%)

+27%

🇮🇷Iran, Islamic Rep.55.5K(2.4%)

−44%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024