Baghdad - INA
The Ministry of Planning announced today, Tuesday, the status of the population of Iraq for the year 2020.
The official spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "the determination of the population of Iraq was based on population estimates prepared by the Central Bureau of Statistics in accordance with international statistical standards," adding that "the annual growth rate of the population in the year 2020, it reached (2.6%).
He added that "the population of Iraq, for the year 2020, reached (40) million and (150) thousand people, distributed by (50.50%) for men and (49.5%) for women.
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