Country comparison Iran : Iraq

General information

	Iran	Iraq
Region:	South Asia	Western Asia
Area:	1,745,150 km²	435,052 km²
Official language:	Persian	Arabic
Government form:	Islamic Republic	Federal parliamentary republic
Independent since:	1906 AD	1932 AD
Capital:	Tehran	Baghdad

Population

	Iran	Iraq
Population:	83,993,000	40,223,000
Inhabitants/km²:	48.1	92.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 76 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 73 years
Average age:	Ø 31.7 years	Ø 21.2 years
Birthrate:	18.42 ‰	28.56 ‰
Deathrate:	4.84 ‰	4.74 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.30 ‰	-0.68 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Iran	Iraq
Political stability:	19	16
Civil rights:	15	12
Health:	60	42
Climate:	56	37
Cost of Living:	50	75
Popularity:	40	34

Economy

	Iran	Iraq
Currency:	Iranian Rial (1 IRR = 100 Dinars)	Iraqi Dinar (1 IQD =1000 Fils)
Unemployment rate:	11.5 %	14.2 %
Inflation rate:	39.91 %	6.04 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	52.38 %	36.76 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	44.70 %	30.80 %
Average income:	2,960 US$	4,680 US$
Corruption index:	25 (very bad)	23 (very bad)

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	203,471 M US$	2.42 M US$	166,757 M US$	4.15 M US$
Gross national product:	248,364 M US$	2.96 M US$	188,097 M US$	4.68 M US$
Exported goods:	29,727 M US$	0.35 M US$	50,613 M US$	1.26 M US$
Imported goods:	17,503 M US$	0.21 M US$	54,723 M US$	1.36 M US$

Infrastructure

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	223,485 km	2.66 km	59,623 km	1.48 km
Railways:	8,484 km	0.10 km	2,272 km	0.06 km
Waterways:	850 km	0.01 km	5,279 km	0.13 km
Harbours:	893	0.011	68	0.002
Airports:	319	0.004	102	0.003

Energy balance

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	236.30 bn kWh	2.81 m kWh	38.46 bn kWh	956,181.17 kWh
Energy production:	272.30 bn kWh	3.24 m kWh	75.45 bn kWh	1.88 m kWh
Energy export:	6.82 bn kWh	81,221.10 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	4.22 bn kWh	50,254.22 kWh	11.97 bn kWh	297,594.61 kWh
CO2 emissions:	629.29 m t	7,492.18 t	188.14 m t	4,677.48 t

Telecommunication

	Iran	Iraq
International dialing:	+98	+964
Internet domain:	.ir	.iq

	IRN total	IRN per 1000 inh.	IRQ total	IRQ per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	29,093,587	346	4,166,461	104
Mobile cellulars:	127,624,951	1519	36,946,600	919
Internet server:	197,804	2	26	0
Internet users:	70,647,204	841	19,853,827	494
Broadband Internet:	9,564,195	114	6,254,099	155

Healthcare system

	Iran	Iraq
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.56	1.32
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.14	0.82
Diabetes:	9.6 %	8.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.1 %	0.3 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	94.0 %
Smokers:	14.0 %	18.8 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Iran and Iraq

	Iran	Iraq
Daytime temperatures:	24.0 °C	32.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	10.2 °C	18.9 °C
Rel. humidity:	46 %	47 %
Rain days:	3.4	1.3
Sunshine hours per day:	8.1	8.4

Native languages

	Iran	Iraq
Arabic:	2.0 %	77.2 %
Persian:	53.0 %	0.8 %
Kurdish:	9.1 %	19.0 %
Azerbaijanian:	14.3 %	1.7 %
Luri:	5.6 %	n/a
Gilaki:	5.3 %	n/a
Mazandarani:	3.6 %	n/a
Balochi:	2.0 %	n/a
Bakhtyari:	1.3 %	n/a
Turkmen:	1.2 %	n/a
Assyrian:	n/a	0.8 %
other:	2.6 %	0.5 %

Religions

	Iran	Iraq
Islam:	96.5 %	97.0 %
Yazidism:	n/a	1.3 %
Christianity:	0.4 %	0.8 %
Bahaism:	0.4 %	n/a
Hinduism:	n/a	0.1 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	0.6 %