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Iraq

 

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 Iraq
All information: Iraq
 		 United States
All information: United States
 
Area:435,052 km² 9,831,510 km²
Population:38,434,000 326,688,000
Official language:Arabic English

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Government

Government form:Federal parliamentary republic Federal presidential republic
Independent since:1932 n.Chr. 1776 n.Chr.
Capital:Baghdad Washington, D.C.


Population

Inhabitants per km²:88.3 33.2
Life expectancy males:68.4 years 76.1 years
Life expectancy females:72.5 years 81.1 years
Average age:19.7 years 37.4 years
Birthrate:29.08 ‰ 11.60 ‰
Deathrate:4.78 ‰ 8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:-0.50 ‰ 3.00 ‰


Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
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Political stability:31 75
Civil rights:3 96
Health:29 68
Security:22 63
Climate:43 64
Cost of Living:81 11
Popularity:24 92


Economy

Currency:Iraqi Dinar (1 IQD = 1000 Fils) US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:12.8 % 3.7 %
Inflation rate:0.37 % 1.81 %
Cost of Living:59.80 % 110.20 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:30.80 % 36.60 %
Average income:4,502 € 56,427 €
Corruption index:20 (very bad) 69 (moderate)
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Gross domestic product:200,293 Mio €5.21 M € 18,351,356 M €56.17 M €
Gross national product:172,897 Mio €4.50 M € 18,433,513 M €56.43 M €
Exported goods:82,118 M €2.14 M € 2,234,305 M €6.84 M €
Imported goods:50,805 M €1.32 M € 2,794,991 M €8.56 M €

Infrastructure

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Roadways:59,623 km1.55 km 6,586,610 km20.16 km
Railways:2,272 km0.06 km 293,564 km0.90 km
Waterways:5,279 km0.14 km 41,009 km0.13 km
Harbours:730.002 3,6730.011
Airports:1020.003 13,5130.041


Energy balance

 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Energy consumption:38.46 bn kWh1.00 m kWh 3,902.00 bn kWh11.94 m kWh
Energy production:75.45 bn kWh1.96 m kWh 4,095.00 bn kWh12.53 m kWh
Energy export:0.00 kWh0.00 kWh 9.70 bn kWh29,676.68 kWh
Energy imports:11.97 bn kWh311,446.23 kWh 72.72 bn kWh222,598.05 kWh
CO2 emissions:168.44 m t4,382.72 t 5.25 bn t16,083.50 t


Telecommunication

International dialing:+964 +1
Internet domain:.iq .us
 
 totalper 1000 people totalper 1000 people
Landlines:2,705,02870 109,961,000337
Mobile phones:36,527,353950 422,000,0001,292
Internet server:260 505,000,0001,546
Internet users:28,825,201750 285,087,483873



Healthcare system

Hospital beds/1000 inh.:1.40 2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:0.82 2.59
Diabetes sufferers:8.8 % 10.8 %
Tuberculosis sufferers:0.4 % 0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:92.0 % 77.0 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Iraq and United States

Daytime temperatures:33.2 °C 18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:19.2 °C 7.2 °C
Relative humidity:47 % 67 %
Absolute humidity:10 g/m³ 9 g/m³
Rain days per year:15.6 85.2
Sunshine hours per day:8.4 7.2


Native languages

English:n/a 82.1 %
Arabic:77.2 % n/a
Kurdish:19.0 % n/a
Spanish:n/a 10.7 %
Azerbaijanian:1.7 % n/a
Assyrian:0.8 % n/a
Persian:0.8 % n/a
German:n/a 0.7 %
French:n/a 0.7 %
Chinese:n/a 0.6 %
Italian:n/a 0.6 %
Tagalog:n/a 0.4 %
Polish:n/a 0.3 %
Korean:n/a 0.3 %
Vietnamese:n/a 0.2 %
Portuguese:n/a 0.2 %
Japanese:n/a 0.2 %
other:0.5 % 3.0 %


Religions

Islam:99.0 % 0.6 %
Christianity:0.8 % 78.5 %
Jewry:0.1 % 1.8 %
Yazidism:1.0 % n/a
Buddhism:0.1 % 0.7 %
Hinduism:0.1 % n/a
other:-1.1 % 18.4 %