Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) – The German platform specializing in data gathering and visualization, Statista, expected that the population in Iraq would rise to 44.42 million people.
Statista predicted that Iraq’s population will rise steadily by 5.6 million people (over 12.61 percent) between 2024 and 2029.
As the Iraqi population has been steadily growing in the past few years, the overall population is predicted to reach 50.06 million people in 2029, representing a new peak.
Iraq is holding its first full population census on Wednesday and Thursday since 1987, following the 1997 census that excluded the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
Iraq’s political and social future will be impacted by this significant national event, which is the tenth census the country has seen in its modern history.
The Iraqi Ministry of Planning revealed an estimation of the Iraqi population in 2023, indicating that it exceeded 43 million.
The Planning Ministry mentioned last July that it is working to conduct a national census in 2024 to serve development plans by setting up a comprehensive database of the population in Iraq.
According to the last national census carried out in 1997, during the era of the late President Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s population at that time was 19 million.
It is estimated that there were around three million people living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq at that time.
The post Iraq’s population expected to rise to 44.42 million in 2024 appeared first on Iraqi News.
