This article is about the demographic features of the population of Iraq, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.
The 2009 IMF population estimate of Iraq is 31,234,000.[1]
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Iraq is the region known outside the Islamic world as Mesopotamia, the population estimate in 1920 was 3 million. The ruins of Ur, Babylon, and other ancient cities are situated in Iraq, as is the legendary location of the Garden of Eden. Almost 75% of Iraq's population lives in the flat, alluvial plain stretching southeast from Tikrit to the Persian Gulf. The Tigris and the Euphrates carry about 70 million cubic meters of silt annually from this plain down to the delta. The water from these two great rivers, and the fertility of the soil in the alluvial plain and the delta, allowed early agriculture to sustain a stable population as far back as the 7th millennium BC.
| Period | Live births per year | Deaths per year | Natural change per year | CBR1 | CDR1 | NC1 | TFR1 | IMR1 |
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| 1950-1955 | 327 000 | 158 000 | 169 000 | 53.2 | 25.8 | 27.5 | 7.30 | 197.6 |
| 1955-1960 | 297 000 | 133 000 | 164 000 | 42.6 | 19.1 | 23.5 | 6.20 | 152.9 |
| 1960-1965 | 343 000 | 122 000 | 221 000 | 43.3 | 15.4 | 27.9 | 6.60 | 120.7 |
| 1965-1970 | 430 000 | 121 000 | 309 000 | 46.5 | 13.1 | 33.4 | 7.40 | 96.0 |
| 1970-1975 | 475 000 | 121 000 | 354 000 | 43.6 | 11.1 | 32.5 | 7.15 | 76.4 |
| 1975-1980 | 526 000 | 124 000 | 402 000 | 41.2 | 9.8 | 31.5 | 6.80 | 60.4 |
| 1980-1985 | 571 000 | 185 000 | 387 000 | 39.1 | 12.6 | 26.5 | 6.35 | 48.9 |
| 1985-1990 | 638 000 | 132 000 | 505 000 | 38.8 | 8.0 | 30.8 | 6.15 | 41.8 |
| 1990-1995 | 719 000 | 105 000 | 614 000 | 38.2 | 5.6 | 32.6 | 5.80 | 43.4 |
| 1995-2000 | 836 000 | 119 000 | 717 000 | 37.9 | 5.4 | 32.5 | 5.40 | 38.1 |
| 2000-2005 | 960 000 | 144 000 | 816 000 | 37.5 | 5.6 | 31.9 | 5.12 | 35.9 |
| 2005-2010 | 1 079 000 | 187 000 | 892 000 | 36.6 | 6.3 | 30.2 | 4.86 | 34.6 |
| 1 CBR = crude birth rate (per 1000); CDR = crude death rate (per 1000); NC = natural change (per 1000); TFR = total fertility rate (number of children per woman); IMR = infant mortality rate per 1000 births | ||||||||
Iraqi Arabs 75%-80%, Kurds 15%-20%,Turkmen 5%, Assyrians 2% .
Arabic (official), Kurdish (official), Neo-Aramaic, Turkmen, Persian
Islam 95% (Shi'a 60%, Sunni 35%), Christianity and others 5%.
The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook, unless otherwise indicated.
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