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IRQ · Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Iraq

47,020,774

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+978.76K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+92.5%from 24.42M
Life expectancy72.4 years2024
Fertility rate3.22births per woman · 2024
Urban population69.9%2025
RegionMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & PakistanUpper middle income

A country at every age

How Iraq is shaped by age.

A younger population means schools, jobs, and future families will shape the decades ahead.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1436.0%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6460.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+3.4%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate25.6births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+21.4births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-1.06Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Iraq look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 71.93M in 2050—56.2% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202446.04M
  2. 205071.93M
  3. 2100100.65M
Median age in 205027.8years
Births in 20501.34Mduring the year
Deaths in 2050405.88Kduring the year
Life expectancy75.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19607.02M
  2. 19709.74M
  3. 198013.59M
  4. 199017.58M
  5. 200024.42M
  6. 201031.05M
  7. 202042.12M
  8. 202547.02M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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