Iraq 
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.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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
Iraq in the News
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While pundits and politicians are squabbling over semantics, the death toll for American troops will soon surpass the number murdered on 11 September, and Iraqi civilians are being killed at a rate not imagined under former ruler Saddam Hussein.
There are fears that Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk will be a hot spot for increased violence following a mass influx of Kurds into the city.
Endemic corruption has led to a dire lack of funds for a reconstruction process in a country that has some of the world's richest oil reserves.
In a Kurdish province of northern Iraq, a sharp increase in housing costs is causing severe distress among the many displaced persons fleeing unsafe areas of the country.
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