Iraq

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Facts

Population: 27,499,638 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 39.4% (male 5,509,736/female 5,338,722) 15-64 years: 57.6% (male 8,018,841/female 7,812,611) 65 years and over: 3% (male 386,321/female 433,407) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: 2.618% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 31.44 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 5.26 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.032 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.026 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.891 male(s)/female total population: 1.024 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 47.04 deaths/1,000 live births male: 52.73 deaths/1,000 live births female: 41.07 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 69.31 years male: 68.04 years female: 70.65 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 4.07 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: less than 0.1% (2001 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: less than 500 (2003 est.).

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: 74.1% male: 84.1% female: 64.2% (2000 est.).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $87.9 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 2.4% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $2,900 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 7.3% industry: 66.6% services: 26.1% (2004 est.).

Labor force: 7.4 million (2004 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA% industry: NA% services: NA%.

Population below poverty line: NA%.

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: NA% highest 10%: NA%.

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 64.8% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 25% to 30% (2005 est.).

Budget: revenues: $33.4 billion expenditures: $41 billion (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: wheat, barley, rice, vegetables, dates, cotton; cattle, sheep, poultry.

Industries: petroleum, chemicals, textiles, leather, construction materials, food processing, fertilizer, metal fabrication/processing.

Industrial production growth rate: NA%.

Electricity - production: 34.6 billion kWh (2006).

Electricity - consumption: 33.3 billion kWh (2005).

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2005).

Electricity - imports: 2.02 billion kWh (2005).

Exports: $32.19 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: crude oil 84%, crude materials excluding fuels 8%, food and live animals 5%.

Exports - partners: US 49.7%, Italy 10.4%, Spain 6.3%, Canada 5.6% (2005).

Imports: $20.76 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: food, medicine, manufactures.

Imports - partners: Turkey 23.4%, Syria 23.1%, US 11.7%, Jordan 6.3% (2005).

Debt - external: $81.48 billion (2006 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $13.5 billion pledged in foreign aid for 2004-07 from outside of the US, over $33 billion pledged total (2004).

Currency (code): New Iraqi dinar (NID) as of 22 January 2004.

Exchange rates: New Iraqi dinars per US dollar - 1,466 (2006), 1,475 (2005), 1,890 (second half, 2003), 0.3109 (2001).

Fiscal year: calendar year.