Iraq - Population density

Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Iraq was 92.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 92.65 in 2020 and a minimum value of 17.09 in 1961.

Definition: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1961 17.09
1962 17.55
1963 18.04
1964 18.57
1965 19.15
1966 19.78
1967 20.46
1968 21.17
1969 21.92
1970 22.68
1971 23.45
1972 24.24
1973 25.04
1974 25.86
1975 26.72
1976 27.59
1977 28.49
1978 29.40
1979 30.32
1980 31.22
1981 32.11
1982 33.00
1983 33.87
1984 34.73
1985 35.57
1986 36.38
1987 37.17
1988 37.98
1989 38.86
1990 39.83
1991 40.90
1992 42.08
1993 43.34
1994 44.67
1995 46.07
1996 47.52
1997 49.02
1998 50.56
1999 52.13
2000 53.72
2001 55.35
2002 57.00
2003 58.63
2004 60.16
2005 61.55
2006 62.76
2007 63.82
2008 64.90
2009 66.71
2010 68.48
2011 70.74
2012 73.43
2013 76.38
2014 79.27
2015 81.94
2016 84.33
2017 86.50
2018 88.53
2019 90.55
2020 92.65

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization