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IndicatorIRQIraqMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.52rank #98
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile23.5rank #175
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.27rank #90
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.2rank #111
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.57rank #94
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile29.9rank #182
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.52rank #98
Military spending% GDP2.4%rank #38
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.22rank #97
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile30.6rank #197
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile38.6rank #175
Rule of Law0-100 percentile33.6rank #189
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.2rank #125
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.37rank #92
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.22rank #103
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile39rank #156
Women in parliament% seats25.5%rank #90
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.56rank #116
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment8.2%rank #114
Agriculture value added% GDP3.4%rank #104
Annual working hours per workerhours1,583.2rank #114
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker128,427rank #92
Current account balance% GDP3%rank #42
Employment-to-population ratio%35%rank #174
External debt stocks% GNI6.2%rank #5
FDI net inflows% GDP-2.7%rank #185
GDPcurrent US$254.37Brank #53
GDP growth%-2.2%rank #183
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$5,409.7rank #114
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $12,191.6rank #113
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $12,653.5rank #110
Government expenditure% GDP27.6%rank #61
Gross capital formation% GDP19.1%rank #128
Gross savings% GDP32%rank #27
Human capital indexindex2.3rank #102
Industry value added% GDP45.4%rank #9
Inflation%0.3%rank #19
Labour force participation rate%41.5%rank #168
Personal remittances received% GDP0.25%rank #133
R&D expenditure% GDP0.04%rank #88
Researchers in R&Dper million164.3rank #74
Tax revenue% GDP1.3%rank #137
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.67rank #54
Trade openness% GDP77.1%rank #96
Unemployment% labor force15.5%rank #168
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%15.8%rank #168
Vulnerable employment% employment27.1%rank #88
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2432%rank #164
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2432.7%rank #166
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop98.4%rank #60
Basic sanitation access% pop98.5%rank #51
Child mortalityper 1002.2rank #91
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,370.6rank #160
DTP3 immunization coverage%90%rank #10
Health spending% GDP5.5%rank #116
Infant mortalityper 1k births20.1rank #86
Life expectancyyears72.4rank #132
Maternal mortalityper 100k66rank #46
Measles immunization% children91%rank #9
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%91%rank #9
Physiciansper 1k1rank #74
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m349.5rank #188
Road traffic deathsper 100k27.3rank #109
Smoking prevalence% adults20.1%rank #68
Suicide mortality rateper 100k3rank #30
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k21rank #54
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births21.8rank #127
Undernourishment% pop14.9%rank #50
Education
Adult literacy%84.1%rank #26
Education spending% GDP3.6%rank #35
Expected years of schoolingyears12.4rank #133
Mean years of schoolingyears6.8rank #143
Primary completion rate% relevant age63.6%rank #110
Primary enrollment% gross104.6%rank #73
Secondary enrollment% gross50.6%rank #118
Tertiary enrollment% gross15.6%rank #79
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00025.6rank #48
Fertility ratebirths/woman3.2rank #49
Median age of populationyears20.3rank #173
Net migration rateper 1,000-0.13rank #100
Populationpeople47.02Mrank #34
Population growth%2.1%rank #43
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years75.3rank #144
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands71,928.8rank #28
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age68rank #51
Urban population%69.9%rank #79
Climate
CO₂ emissionst233.64Mrank #27
CO₂ per capitat5.1rank #63
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation1.3%rank #126
Electricity from solar% generation0.29%rank #146
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita1,377.4rank #100
Forest area% land1.9%rank #187
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita7.4rank #137
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh683.1rank #174
Renewable electricity%1.6%rank #171
Renewable energy share%1.1%rank #164
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e335.1rank #162
Society
Asylum seekerspeople96,887rank #159
Extreme poverty% pop0.5%rank #6
Female labor participation%10.9%rank #180
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10017.6rank #78
Gender Development Indexratio0.79rank #108
Gender Inequality Index0-10.56rank #131
Gini indexindex29.8rank #11
Homicide rateper 100k9.5rank #101
Human Development Index0-10.7rank #98
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.53rank #89
Internally displaced personspeople997,334rank #23
Internet users% pop81.5%rank #94
Life satisfaction0-105.2rank #92
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.67rank #69
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #18
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #14
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #66
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.16rank #111
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people322,345rank #25
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people270,671rank #161
Youth NEET rate%37.3%rank #171
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year132rank #13
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths177rank #22
Hazard & exposure0-107.7rank #66
Human hazard & exposure0-108.9rank #66
INFORM risk score0-105.8rank #46
Lack of coping capacity0-104.9rank #40
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-103.6rank #32
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-106rank #39
Natural hazard & exposure0-105.7rank #44
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year137rank #20
Socio-economic vulnerability0-104.1rank #42
Vulnerability0-105.3rank #42
Vulnerable groups0-106.3rank #57
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