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Iraq

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Iraq is a country. The capital city is Baghdad, located in the Western Asia region of Asia. It has a land area of 434,128 km², a population of 45,074,049 people and uses the currency Iraqi dinar. The Prime Minister is Adil Abdul-Mahdi.

Key facts

currency: Iraqi dinar
capital city: Baghdad
region: Western Asia
continent: Asia
land area: 434,128 km²
population: 45,074,049 people
political leader: Adil Abdul-Mahdi (Prime Minister)

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central government debt: 27.44 % of GDP
expense: 27.61 % of GDP
GDP: 250,842,782,139.46 current US$
inflation: 4.36 annual %
self-employed workers: 31.60 % of total employment
tax revenue: 1.34 % of GDP
unemployment: 15.45 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 27.13 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 459,000 people
democracy score: 4.06
democracy type: Hybrid regime
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 1,124,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 81.70 % of population
military expenditure: 2.07 % of GDP
net migration: -5,710 people
press freedom: 1.49
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 29.05 %
birth rate: 27.04 per 1,000 people
death rate: 4.43 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 248.92 current US$
health expenditure: 5.25 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.01 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 1.30 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 71
suicide mortality rate: 3.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 94,240.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.33 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 192.91 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 24.42 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 3.73 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 25.73 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.00 % of total
net energy imports: -229.39 % of energy use
fertility rate: 3.44 births per woman
forest area: 8,250 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 95.98 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 362.78 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 16.40
methane emissions: 160.62 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 5.85 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 22,459,934 people
male population: 22,614,115 people
renewable energy consumption: 1.10 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 434,269.61 km²
rural population: 12,801,481 people
urban land area: 6,572.97 km²
urban population: 32,272,568 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 3.47 % of total population

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Iraq is one of the countries in Asia, countries in Western Asia and 194 countries in our database.

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