PNN – The Prime Minister of Iraq announced about the results of the census that was held in this country last week that according to the results of this census, the exact population of Iraq has reached more than 45 million 407 thousand 495 people.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, “Mohammed Shia al-Sudani” said in a press conference that the country’s nationwide census was a success, and that the population of Iraq, based on the results of the census, is over 45 million people, of which 60% are working people.
The Prime Minister of Iraq mentioned the figure of 60% of the working population as the peak of the population that a country can reach.
According to this report, the non-working population under 15 years of age is 36.1% and the population of 65 years old (higher working age) is only 3.7% of the country’s population.
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According to the report of the Prime Minister of Iraq, 70.3% of the total population of Iraq is urban dwellers and 29.7% are rural dwellers.
He mentioned the total number of households totaling 7 million 898 thousand 588 families and added that the average population of each household in Iraq is 5.3 people, 50.2% of the population are men and 49.8% are women.
An interesting statistic in this census is that 11.33% of households are headed by women and 88.67% of male-headed households.
According to the aforementioned statistics, the Prime Minister of Iraq announced that the number of housing units surveyed is 837,000, of which 92.1% are construction houses, 6.6% are apartments, and 14% are mud houses.
The Iraqi census was held for the first time across Iraq, including the Kurdish provinces of the north of the country, under strict two-day curfew measures on Wednesday and Thursday after fourteen decades of suspension.
However, the new census statistics showed that Iraq has a young population, most of whom are among the working population, and the population under 15 years of age is a relatively significant number compared to the old population of Iraq.