Iraq 
Facts
Population:
23,331,985 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
41.64% (male 4,934,340; female 4,781,206)
15-64 years:
55.28% (male 6,528,854; female 6,368,823)
65 years and over:
3.08% (male 335,953; female 382,809) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
2.84% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
34.64 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
6.21 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
1.03 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.88 male(s)/female
total population:
1.02 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
60.05 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
66.95 years
male:
65.92 years
female:
68.03 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
4.75 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
less than 0.01% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
NA
Nationality:
noun:
Iraqi(s)
adjective:
Iraqi
Ethnic groups:
Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5%
Religions:
Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3%
Languages:
Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
58%
male:
70.7%
female:
45% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $57 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
15% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $2,500 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
6%
industry:
13%
services:
81% (1993 est.)
Population below poverty line:
NA%
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
NA%
highest 10%:
NA%
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
100% (2000 est.)
Labor force:
4.4 million (1989)
Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture NA%, industry NA%, services NA%
Unemployment rate:
NA%
Budget:
revenues:
$NA
expenditures:
$NA, including capital expenditures of $NA
Industries:
petroleum, chemicals, textiles, construction materials, food processing
Industrial production growth rate:
NA%
Electricity - production:
29.42 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
97.96%
hydro:
2.04%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
27.361 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, cotton; cattle, sheep
Exports:
$21.8 billion (2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
crude oil
Exports - partners:
Russia, France, Switzerland, China (2000)
Imports:
$13.8 billion (2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
food, medicine, manufactures
Imports - partners:
Egypt, Russia, France, Vietnam (2000)
Debt - external:
$139 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$327.5 million (1995)
Currency:
Iraqi dinar (IQD)
Currency code:
IQD
Exchange rates:
Iraqi dinars per US dollar - 0.3109 (fixed official rate since 1982); black market rate - Iraqi dinars per US dollar - 1,910 (December 1999), 1,815 (December 1998), 1,530 (December 1997), 910 (December 1996), 3,000 (December 1995); note - subject to wide fluctuations
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
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Al-Ahrar
(Pan-Arab), Baghdad
Al-Ayyam
(independent), Baghdad
Al-Da'wah
(Organ of the Islamic Da'wah Party), Baghdad
Al-Dimuqrati
(Organ of the Iraqi Group for Democracy), Baghdad
Al-Iraq al-Jadid
(Independent), Baghdad
Al-Ittihad
(Kurdistan Democratic Party organ), Baghdad
Al-Majd
(Secular Weekly), Baghdad
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In the last few days, around five hundred people have lost their lives in Iraq in car bombings as the Iraqi resistance continues to unleash an orgy of violence as a response to the United States-led invasion and the formation of the first post-Saddam Iraqi government.
“You might get a substantial Shiite majority rearming, developing weapons of mass destruction, to try to get rid of the U.S. outposts that are there to try to make sure that the U.S. controls most of the oil reserves of the world.” In this excerpt from a presentation given Jan. 26, Noam Chomsky gives his thoughts on what comes after the Iraq election.
In an interview with Rich Bowden, John Martinkus compares and criticizes the counter-insurgency methods of Indonesia and the United States, and talks frankly about both his kidnapping by Iraqi insurgents and his reaction to subsequent criticism from members of the Australian government.
Ordinary Iraqis are torn between their desire for reform and their fear of what that reform may bring, writes Andy Mason. So are the upcoming elections a storm gathering on the horizon, or the light at the end of a tunnel?
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