International Rankings of Iraq 2024, country comparisons

This table lists the international rankings of Iraq, in all categories that are published in the CIA World Factbook, and those that we derived from them. Additional international rankings of Iraq, can be found in the main country ranks menu.
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Ranked Data	Rank	Value	Year
Communications
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	38	16.00	2020
Broadband - fixed subscriptions - total	32	6.254 million	2020
Internet users - percent of population	69	49.00 %	2021
Internet users - total	43	21.560 million	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	52	7.00	2021
Telephones - fixed lines - total subscriptions	49	2.392 million	2022
Telephones - mobile cellular - subscriptions per 100 inhabitants	73	86.00	2021
Telephones - mobile cellular - total subscriptions	44	37.649 million	2021
Economy
Average household expenditures - on alcohol and tobacco	22	4.20 % of household expenditures	2018
Average household expenditures - on food	31	30.10 % of household expenditures	2018
Budget - expenditures	48	85.546 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget - revenues	56	51.534 billion US Dollars	2020
Budget surplus (+) or deficit (-)	69	4.20 % of GDP	N/A
Current account balance	22	24.563 billion US Dollars	2021
Debt - external	63	73.020 billion US Dollars	2017
Exchange rates	18	1450.00	N/A
Exports	52	78.261 billion US Dollars	2021
GDP (official exchange rate)	52	231.994 billion US Dollars	2019
GDP - composition by end use - exports of goods and services	108	32.50 % of GDP	2016
GDP - composition by end use - government consumption	37	22.90 % of GDP	2016
GDP - composition by end use - household consumption	148	50.40 % of GDP	2013
GDP - composition by end use - imports of goods and services	79	40.90 % of GDP	2016
GDP - composition by end use - investment in fixed capital	83	20.60 % of GDP	2016
GDP - composition by sector of origin - agriculture	120	3.30 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - industry	9	51.00 % of GDP	2017
GDP - composition by sector of origin - services	159	45.80 % of GDP	2017
Gini Index coefficient - distribution of family income	109	30 %	2012
Household income or consumption by percentage share - highest 10%	84	25.70 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	2007
Household income or consumption by percentage share - lowest 10%	15	3.60 % share of income accruing to lowest and highest 10% of population	N/A
Imports	63	50.707 billion US Dollars	2021
Industrial production growth rate	161	1.14 %	2021
Inflation rate (consumer prices)	52	6.04 %	2021
Labor force	54	11.184 million US Dollars	2021
Population below poverty line	76	23 %	2014
Public debt	166	27.44 % of GDP	2018
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)	50	390.165 billion US Dollars	2021
Real GDP growth rate	134	2.78 %	2021
Real GDP per capita	125	9000 US Dollars	2021
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold	38	64.231 billion US Dollars	2021
Taxes and other revenues	206	1.34 % of GDP	N/A
Unemployment rate	39	14.19 %	2021
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - female	5	65.20 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - male	48	23.50 %	N/A
Youth unemployment rate (ages 15-24) - total	43	27.20 %	2021
Energy
Carbon dioxide emissions - from consumed natural gas	42	35.339 million metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - from petroleum and other liquids	26	108.140 million metric tonnes of CO2	2019
Carbon dioxide emissions - total	36	143.479 million	2019
Electricity - consumption	53	46.493 billion kWh	2019
Electricity - imports	16	14.180 billion kWh	2019
Electricity - installed generating capacity	37	28.369 million kWh	2020
Electricity - transmission/distribution losses	6	58.502 billion kWh	2019
Electricity generation sources - fossil fuels	12	97.80 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - hydroelectricity	123	2.10 %	2020
Electricity generation sources - solar	68	0.10 %	2020
Energy consumption per capita	88	63.174 million Btu/person	2019
Natural gas - consumption	41	18.014 billion cubic meters	2019
Natural gas - imports	30	7.303 billion cubic meters	2019
Natural gas - production	42	10.711 billion cubic meters	2019
Natural gas - proven reserves	12	3.729 trillion cubic meters	2021
Petroleum - crude oil and lease condensate exports	3	3.976 million bbl/day	2018
Petroleum - crude oil estimated reserves	5	145.019 billion bbl/day	2021
Petroleum - refined petroleum consumption	25	863300 bbl/day	2019
Petroleum - total petroleum production	6	4.162 million bbl/day	2021
Refined petroleum products - exports	88	8284 bbl/day	2015
Refined petroleum products - imports	30	255100 bbl/day	2015
Refined petroleum products - production	39	398000 bbl/day	2015
Environment
Air pollutants - carbon dioxide emissions	29	190 megatons	2016
Air pollutants - methane emissions	67	17 megatons	2020
Air pollutants - particulate matter emissions	25	39 micrograms per cubic meter	2019
Land use - agricultural land	152	18	2018
Land use - arable land	105	8	2018
Land use - forest	169	2	2018
Land use - permanent crops	80	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	113	9	2018
Total renewable water resources	75	89.860 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - agricultural	14	44.230 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - industrial	17	5.490 billion cubic meters	2020
Total water withdrawal - municipal	15	6.900 billion cubic meters	2020
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	45	2.91	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	66	72	2023
Geography
Area - land	58	437367 sq km	N/A
Area - total	62	438317 sq km	N/A
Area - water	113	950 sq km	N/A
Coastline	169	58 km	N/A
Elevation - mean elevation	105	312 meters	N/A
Irrigated land	19	35250 sq km	2012
Land boundaries - total	55	3809 km	N/A
Land use - agricultural land	152	18	2018
Land use - arable land	105	8	2018
Land use - forest	169	2	2018
Land use - permanent crops	80	1	2018
Land use - permanent pasture	113	9	2018
Population Density	122	94.35 Persons per sq km	N/A
Military
Military expenditures	28	2 % of GDP	2022
Population
Birth rate	46	24.20 births/1,000 population	2023
Child marriage - women married by age 15	21	7	N/A
Child marriage - women married by age 18	28	28	2018
Children under the age of 5 years underweight	64	4 %	2018
Contraceptive prevalence rate	65	52.80 %	2018
Current health expenditure	66	5 % of GDP	2020
Currently married women (ages 15-49)	32	66 %	2023
Death rate	87	3.90 deaths/1,000 population	2023
Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio	137	5.80 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - potential support ratio	29	17.10 %	2021
Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio	44	71.00 %	N/A
Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio	43	65.20 %	N/A
Drinking water source - improved	1	100 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - rural	92	3 % of population	N/A
Drinking water source - total	95	1 % of population	2020
Education expenditures	39	5 % of GDP	2016
Gross reproduction rate	38	1.55 %	2023
Infant mortality rate - female	77	17.40 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - male	80	20.90 deaths/1,000 live births	N/A
Infant mortality rate - total	78	19.20 deaths/1,000 live births	2023
Life expectancy at birth - female	87	75 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - male	85	72 years	N/A
Life expectancy at birth - total population	86	74 years	2023
Literacy - definition	2	15	N/A
Literacy - female	76	80 %	2017
Literacy - male	45	91 %	N/A
Literacy - total population	62	86 %	N/A
Maternal mortality ratio	72	76.00 deaths/100,000 live births	2020
Median age - female	138	22 years	N/A
Median age - male	134	22 years	N/A
Median age - total	127	22 years	2023
Net migration rate	69	1.00 migrant(s)/1,000 population	N/A
Obesity - adult prevalence rate	22	30.40 %	2016
Physicians density	109	0.97 physicians/1,000 population	2020
Population	36	41.266 million	2023
Population growth rate	39	1.94 %	2023
Sanitation facility access - improved	1	100 % of population	N/A
Sex ratio - 0-14 years	12	1.04 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 15-64 years	22	1.01 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - 65 years and over	33	0.80 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - at birth	9	1.05 male(s)/female	N/A
Sex ratio - total population	18	1.01 male(s)/female	N/A
Total fertility rate	46	3.17 children born/woman	2023
Urbanization - rate of urbanization	45	2.91	N/A
Urbanization - urban population	66	72	2023
Transportation
Airports	68	71	2024
Heliports	56	10	2024
Merchant marine - total	96	74	2023
National air transport system - annual freight traffic on registered air carriers	83	16.200 million	2018
National air transport system - annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers	83	2.075 million	2018
National air transport system - inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers	74	34.00	N/A
National air transport system - number of registered air carriers	24	4	2020
Railways - total	42	2272 km	2014
Waterways	25	5279 km	2012

*CALCULATED FIGURES are those that we calculated from data presented by the CIA World Factbook. For example, we calculated population density by dividing the total population by the land area, the electricity consumption per capita by dividing electricity consumption by the total population, etc.

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