NLAID - Activity in Iraq

Information on Iraq

Birth rate 28.81 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 7.1% (2006) country comparison to the world: 72

Climate mostly desert; mild to cool winters with dry, hot, cloudless summers; northern mountainous regions along Iranian and Turkish borders experience cold winters with occasionally heavy snows that melt in early spring, sometimes causing extensive flooding in central and southern Iraq

Death rate 4.82 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues government water control projects have drained most of the inhabited marsh areas east of An Nasiriyah by drying up or diverting the feeder streams and rivers; a once sizable population of Marsh Arabs, who inhabited these areas for thousands of years, has been displaced; furthermore, the destruction of the natural habitat poses serious threats to the area's wildlife populations; inadequate supplies of potable water; development of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers system contingent upon agreements with upstream riparian Turkey; air and water pollution; soil degradation (salination) and erosion; desertification

Infant mortality rate
total 41.68 deaths/1,000 live births
male 45.93 deaths/1,000 live births
female 37.21 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Arabic (official), Kurdish (official in Kurdish regions), Turkoman (a Turkish dialect), Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic), Armenian

Life expectancy at birth
total population 70.55 years
male 69.15 years
female 72.02 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 74.1%
male 84.1%
female 64.2% (2000 est.)

Maternal mortality rate 75 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 83

Natural resources petroleum, natural gas, phosphates, sulfur

Population
30,399,572 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 2.399% (2011 est.)

Religions Muslim (official) 97% (Shia 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-37%), Christian or other 3% note: while there has been voluntary relocation of many Christian families to northern Iraq, recent reporting indicates that the overall Christian population may have dropped by as much as 50 percent since the fall of the Saddam HUSSEIN regime in 2003, with many fleeing to Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 10 years
male 11 years
female 8 years (2005)

NLAID - Activity in Iraq

Information on Iraq

Bijdrage aan WADI project, bestrijding van genital verminking bij vrouwen

Human Rights Awareness Training

Dialoog politieke leiders etnische gemeenschappen Kirkuk

Iraq Film Academy 25mm Workshop

Promote Human Rights Culture and Monitoring of its Violence

The Empowerment of Judges and the Judiciary Staff and Law Specialists on Gender Concept and Gender Based Violence

Nassrya Youth Center

Iraq Mobile Cinema

Ninewa Minorities Dialogue Inter-Faith Component

Trainingen ter bevordering van vrije media in Irak

Bijdrage aan IOM t.b.v. Noodhulpactiviteiten in Iraq

Trainingen ter bevordering van vrije media in Irak

Women Rehabilitation and Protection Against Violence

DPV - Return and Reintegration Irak

verlenen van voedselhulp aan ontheemden in Noord-Irak

KFO jaarbijdrage UNHCR RRP Irak 2011