Country comparison: Iran / Iraq

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Iran and Iraq. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on climate, refugees, inflation, population, health, transport and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.

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

Details for Iran and Iraq

	Iran	Iraq
Population:	85,029,000	41,179,000
Inhabitants/km²:	48.7	94.7
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:	17.94 ‰	28.14 ‰
Deathrate:	4.84 ‰	4.71 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.30 ‰	-0.83 ‰

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:	22	17
Civil rights:	13	14
Health:	60	42
Climate:	58	37
Cost of Living:	43	75
Popularity:	41	33

Economy

	Iran	Iraq
Currency:	Iranian rial (1 IRR = 100 Dinars)	Iraqi dinar (1 IQD =1000 Fils)
Unemployment rate:	11.5 %	14.2 %
Inflation rate:	30.59 %	6.04 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	67.57 %	36.76 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	44.70 %	30.80 %
Average income:	3,370 US$	5,040 US$
Corruption index:	75 (very bad)	77 (very bad)

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	231,548 M US$	2.72 M US$	207,889 M US$	5.05 M US$
Gross national product:	282,862 M US$	3.33 M US$	207,345 M US$	5.04 M US$
Exported goods:	29,727 M US$	0.35 M US$	50,613 M US$	1.23 M US$
Imported goods:	17,503 M US$	0.21 M US$	54,723 M US$	1.33 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Iran and Iraq

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	223,485 km	2.63 km	59,623 km	1.45 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	0.0105	68	0.0017
Passenger airports:	43	0.0005	5	0.0001

Energy balance

	IRN: total	per 1000 inh.	IRQ: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	236.30 bn kWh	2.78 m kWh	38.46 bn kWh	933,963.24 kWh
Energy production:	272.30 bn kWh	3.20 m kWh	75.45 bn kWh	1.83 m kWh
Energy export:	6.82 bn kWh	80,231.68 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	4.22 bn kWh	49,642.03 kWh	11.97 bn kWh	290,679.67 kWh
CO2 emissions:	630.01 m t	7,409.38 t	174.56 m t	4,239.02 t

Telecommunication

Details for Iran and Iraq

	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	342	2,699,758	66
Mobile cellulars:	127,624,951	1501	37,475,325	910
Internet server:	197,804	2	26	0
Internet users:	71,518,430	841	24,707,611	600
Broadband Internet:	9,564,195	112	6,254,099	152

Healthcare system

Details for Iran and Iraq

	Iran	Iraq
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.56	1.32
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.14	0.82
Diabetes:	9.6 %	8.8 %
Tuberculosis:	0.13 ‰	0.27 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	85.0 %	94.0 %
Smokers:	13.6 %	18.5 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Iran and Iraq

	Iran	Iraq
Daytime temperatures:	26.6 °C	32.9 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	13.6 °C	19.0 °C
Rel. humidity:	49 %	47 %
Rain days:	2.9	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
Buddhism:	n/a	0.1 %
Jewry:	n/a	0.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	2.7 %	0.6 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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