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Key facts

  • Population: 28.9 million (International Monetary Fund/Economist Intelligence Unit (IMF/EIU) est., 2007).
  • Average life expectancy: 58 years (Unicef, 2006). UK: 78 years (UN Statistics Division (UNSD), 2007).
  • Average per capita income: US$3,536 (IMF/EIU est., 2007). UK: US$33,800 (purchasing power parity) (World Development Indicators, 2007).
  • Gross national income (GNI): US$56.2 billion (US$41 billion from oil alone) (IMF/EIU est., 2007). Estimated to exceed $70 bn in 2008.
    Average annual growth rate: 9.8% (IMF, 2008).
  • Percentage of people not meeting daily food needs: The estimated number of food insecure people is 930,000 (3.1% of households sampled), while a further 2.8 million (22% of households) were 'extremely dependant upon the food rations, without which they could be expected to become food insecure'. (Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (carried out in late 2007 by WFP with UNICEF, NRI, COSIT, and the Kurdistan Region Statistics Office, and covering all districts in Iraq), published in late 2008.)
  • Women dying in childbirth: 300 per 100,000 live births (UN Millennium Development Indicators, 2005). UK: 13 per 100,000 (UNSD, 2007).
  • Children dying before age 5: 43 per 1,000 live births (Unicef, 2006). UK: 6 per 1,000 (UNSD, 2005).
  • Children getting primary school education: 88% (Unicef, 2006).
    Percentage of people aged 15-49 living with HIV/AIDS: 0.2% (World Bank (WB), 2005). UK: 0.2% (UNSD, 2005).
  • Percentage of people with access to safe, clean water: 81% (WB, 2004).
  • Total UK aid received (2008/09): £337.5m (Source: Statistics for International Development 2009) 

 

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