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Iraq: Population

Millions of people · 1800–2025 · 226 observations · forecasts to 2031 · pop

2025
47 millionpeople
Change on 2024
+2.1%year on year
Average growth, 2015–2025
+2.3%a year

Population

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Recent values

Millions of people

YearValue
203153.3Forecast
203051.9Forecast
202950.9Forecast
202850.0Forecast
202749.0Forecast
202648.0Forecast
202547.0
202446.0
202345.1
202244.1
202143.1
202042.1
201941.2
201840.3
201739.3
201638.5

Sources

  • Gapminder1800–2023
  • Fouquin & Hugot (CEPII)1827–2014
  • Federico & Tena-Junguito1919–1938
  • Maddison Project Database1950–2022
  • WDI (archive)1960–1997
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • Penn World Table1970–2019
  • United Nations1970–2024
  • IMF World Economic Outlook2003–2013
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2013–2031
  • Gapminder (forecast)2023–2030

Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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