Iraq - Total population

45,504,560 (persons) in 2023

In 2023, population for Iraq was 45.5 million persons. Over the last 50 years, population of Iraq grew substantially from 11.2 million to 45.5 million persons rising at an increasing annual rate that reached a maximum of 4.95% in 1993 and then decreased to 2.27% in 2023.

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Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. The values shown are midyear estimates.