World population/Iraq
Asia
Population of Iraq
48,007,435
Growing by 0.03 people every second
#33
world rank
0.58%
of world population
+2.04%
yearly change
+979,989
people this year
1,200,201
births a year
203,072
deaths a year
How the figure for Iraq is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Iraq at 48,007,435 on 1 July 2026, and projects 48,987,424 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.03 people added every second.
That places Iraq at number 33 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.58 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 51 entries in Asia.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 1,200,201 births and 203,072 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in Asia
Ranked by population.