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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It is not uncommon to pick up a newspaper and read a headline regarding the Middle East. It doesn’t matter if you are in Algiers or Amman; the Middle East is certainly changing.
As conquest of Fallujah has illustrated, the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq may have a proven aptitude for destruction, but their ability to convince Iraqis to accept the occupation — through either cajoling them by offering an ever-thinning facade of sovereignty or intimidating them through displays of brute force — has proved far less.
The “trial of century,” as it has been billed, began this week: Saddam and seven of his aides face charges for their alleged involvement in the 1982 killing of 143 Shiite civilians in the Iraqi village of Dujail.
With the Guardian Council of Mullahs and an ultra-conservative president in control of Iran, the resumption of economic and political relations with the United States is less favorable than some would have expected.
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