MOP: Iraq total population reached 40.150.200 people

INA – Baghdad

Ministry of Planning – MPO announced on Monday that Iraq has reached one million and (258) thousand live births, and its population increased to more than 40 million during 2022, while stressing the need to implement a general population census.
 
On the occasion of World Population Day, the Central Bureau of Statistics, during the past year, recorded 224.279 deaths out of the total population of 40.150.200  people, said the official spokesman for the ministry, Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA).
 
Al-Hindawi noted that “the number of male population reached 20.336.180 people, while the number of female population reached 19.784, according to population estimates prepared by the Central Bureau of Statistics.
 
"The number of the (15-24) ages youth population reached 8.100 people for the year of 2020, and they constituted (20%) of the total population," he noted adding, "the (15-19)  age group constituted (11%) of the total population, while the(20-24)  age group constituted (9%) of the total population.
 
Al-Hindawi pointed out that "Corona pandemic caused a stifling financial crisis, with which the Ministry of Planning was unable to implement the general population census, despite the national preparations of the ministry's staff in preparing special systems and programs to implement an electronic census that ensures the speed of building solid databases on the population of Iraq and their social, economic and demographic characteristics,"
 
"The Ministry of Planning sees the necessity of implementing a general population census that adopts modern methodologies to keep pace with the world in implementing the census electronically, using tablet devices, and leaving sheet forms and maps in completing databases from families and individuals," he pointed out.
 
Al-Hindawi explained that "the process of building a digital database for all of Iraq's population is the first stage of the population registry formation stages, as that base extracted by the census and will be linked with the databases of the Ministry of Interior (national card, housing and residence card),  Ministry of Health (births and deaths data), the Supreme Judicial Council (data of marriage and divorce) and the Ministry of Commerce (Food ration card data), to form a population register that will be updated in real time,”
 
“This will reduce many of the activities that are adopted in subsequent censuses, including the huge budget required by the implementation process,”