Economy

Imports
$67.1 billion (2022). Refined Petroleum ($7.81B), Broadcasting Equipment ($3.76B), Cars ($3.4B), Jewellery ($3.01B), and Rolled Tobacco ($1.29B), importing mostly from United Arab Emirates ($21.2B), China ($14B), Turkey ($13.7B), India ($2.45B), and South Korea ($1.15B).

Financial inclusion factors (over 15 years of  age)
• 15.8% have an account with a financial institution
• 1.6% have a credit card
• 4.8% have a mobile money account
• 1% makes online purchases

Exports
$123 billion (2022). Crude Petroleum ($111B), Refined Petroleum ($9.19B), Gold ($1.03B), Petroleum Coke ($770M), and Petroleum Gas ($388M), exporting mostly to India ($38.8B), China ($34B), United States ($10.3B), South Korea ($8.21B), and Greece ($6.27B).

Ease of doing business
Ease of conducting business is low (rated 44.7 out of 100). Ranked 17th out of 20 Middle Eastern and North African countries. Ranked 172nd out of 190 countries worldwide (2023, World Bank).

Media

Media language
Arabic

Information channels
There are hundreds of publications and scores of radio and TV stations. But political and security crises have resulted in an increasingly fractured media scene.
Television is the main medium for news. Many media outlets have political or religious affiliations. For private media, advertising revenues seldom provide a reliable income. The Iraqi Media Network (IMN) is a government holding company for outlets including Al-Iraqiya TV and Republic of Iraq Radio. The autonomous Kurdistan region has its own established media. Freedom of expression is protected by the constitution. But Reporters Without Borders says amid terrorism, political instability and protests, journalists face threats from all sides. Almost all homes have a satellite dish and there are dozens of Iraq-focused satellite TV networks.

The press

Al-Sabah – published by state-run Iraqi Media Network
Al-Zaman – private London-based daily
Al-Mada – Baghdad, private daily
Al-Mashriq – Baghdad, private daily

Television

Al-Iraqiya – state-run 
Al-Sharqiya – private, based in Dubai, satellite and terrestrial
Al-Sumaria – private, based in Beirut, satellite and terrestrial
Kurdistan TV – operated by Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) from the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq 
KurdSat – operated by Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) from the autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq

Radio

Republic of Iraq Radio – state-run
Voice of Iraq – private, Baghdad 
Sumer FM – affilate of Al-Sumaria TV

News agency

National Iraqi News Agency (Nina) – private, English-language pages
Iraqi News – news site, in English
Shafaq News – pro-Kurdish news site, pages in English

Internet Data

Internet users
78.7% penetration, 36.22 million

Share of web traffic by device
77.19% mobile phones, 20% computers (laptops and desktops), 2.68% tablet devices and 0.13% other devices.

Median speed of mobile Internet connection
29.08  Mbps

Median speed of fixed Internet connection
32.64 Mbps

Mobile connection as a percentage of total population: 100%

Percentage of mobile connections that are broadband (3G-5G): 77.1%

Most popular web search engines
Google (96.94%), Bing (1.76%), Yandex (0.53%), Petal Search (0.46%), Yahoo! (0.18%), other (0.13%).

Most used social media
Facebook (56.22%),  Instagram (21.86%), YouTube (15.63%), Twitter (5.04%), Pinterest (1.07%), Reddit (0.07%), LinkedIn (0.07%), other (0.03%)

Social statistics

Life expectancy
70 yrs (2021)

Corruption perceptions Index
Iraq scored 23 out of 100, ranked 157 out of 180 countries worldwide.

Current health expenditure
5.08% of GDP

CO2 emissions
3.8 metric tons per capita

World Happiness Index
Iraq ranked 107 out of 146 countries, with a score of 4.941.