ACOG - Iraq  - IBM

Geography

Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and Kuwait

Area:
total area: 437,072 sq km
land area: 432,162 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of Idaho

Land boundaries: total 3,631 km, Iran 1,458 km, Jordan 181 km, Kuwait 242 km, SaudiArabia 814 km, Syria 605 km, Turkey 331 km

Coastline: 58 km


People

Population: 20,643,769 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 48% (female 4,850,028; male 5,009,513)
15-64 years: 49% (female 5,021,710; male 5,125,191)
65 years and over: 3% (female 338,790; male 298,537)

Population growth rate: 3.72% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 43.6 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 6.82 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 0.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 62.4 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 66.52 years
male: 65.54 years
female: 67.56 years

Total fertility rate: 6.56 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman, Assyrian or other 5%

Religions: Muslim 97% (Shi'a 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3%

Languages: Arabic, Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Assyrian, Armenian

Literacy: age 15-45 can read and write (1985)
total population: 89%
male: 90%
female: 88%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Iraq
conventional short form: Iraq

Type: republic

Capital: Baghdad

Independence: 3 October 1932 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration)

Constitution: 22 September 1968, effective 16 July 1970 (provisional Constitution);new constitution drafted in 1990 but not adopted


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Electricity:
capacity: 7,170,000 kW
production: 25.7 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 1,247 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.