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- People
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- Population: 18,781,770 (July 1990), growth rate 3.9% (1990).
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- Birth rate: 46 births/1,000 population (1990).
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- Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1990).
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- Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990).
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- Infant mortality rate: 67 deaths/1,000 live births (1990).
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- Life expectancy at birth: 66 years male, 68 years female (1990).
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- Total fertility rate: 7.3 children born/woman (1990).
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- Nationality: noun--Iraqi(s); adjective--Iraqi.
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- Ethnic divisions: 75-80% Arab, 15-20% Kurdish, 5% Turkoman,
- Assyrian or other.
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- Religion: 97% Muslim (60-65% Shia, 32-37% Sunni), 3% Christian
- or other.
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- Language: Arabic (official), Kurdish (official in Kurdish
- regions), Assyrian, Armenian.
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- Literacy: 55-65% (1989 est.).
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- Labor force: 3,400,000 (1984); 39% services, 33% agriculture,
- 28% industry, severe labor shortage (1987); expatriate labor
- force about 1,000,000 (1989).
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- Organized labor: less than 10% of the labor force.
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