ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraq’s planning ministry announced Sunday that it would release the final results of the population census in 24 hours, more than three months after the long-overdue process was held across the country, including the Kurdistan Region, spanning around 20 days.
“Iraq’s Planning Minister Mohammed Ali Tamim will hold a press conference tomorrow, Monday, to announce the final results of the general population and housing census,” read a statement from the planning ministry.
The press conference will be attended by "ministers, representatives, heads of agencies, the representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, international agencies, ambassadors, governors, undersecretaries of ministries, and heads of a number of Arab statistical agencies," in addition to "advisors, experts, and university presidents,” the statement detailed.
The preliminary results for the census, announced on November 25, had counted over 45 million, including 6.3 million in the Kurdistan Region.
The preliminary results showed the male population in the country, 22,784,062, was slightly higher than the female population, which stood at 22,623,833.
The number of households in the country is 7,898,588, with the average household size being 5.3 persons. Nearly 89 percent of households are headed by men, while only 11 percent are headed by women.
Iraq’s working age (15-64 years) population was placed at 60 percent of the overall population, those aged below 15 years old accounted for 36 percent, while those aged 65 and older made up less than four percent.
Iraq conducted its first population and housing census in nearly four decades last week. A count in 1997 excluded the Kurdistan Region provinces.
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