Iraq's life expectancy rose from 64.8 yrs in 1995 to 72.4 yrs in 2024.
Iraq · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Iraq's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 59.7 yrs in 2000 to 61.0 yrs in 2021.
Iraq's infant mortality fell from 41.6 ‰ in 1995 to 20.1 ‰ in 2024.
Iraq's under-5 mortality rate fell from 49.1 ‰ in 1995 to 21.8 ‰ in 2024.
Iraq's maternal mortality ratio fell from 142.0 /100k in 1994 to 66.0 /100k in 2023.
Iraq's ncd mortality fell from 27.6 % in 2000 to 22.7 % in 2021.
Iraq's suicide mortality rate fell from 4.1 /100k in 2000 to 3.0 /100k in 2021.
Iraq's mortality caused by road traffic injury rose from 20.7 /100k in 2000 to 27.3 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingup +1.2 pts116th of 192
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +17.7 %107th of 191
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.9 pts166th of 192
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- Physiciansup +4.0 %76th of 129*
- Nurses and midwivesup +7.5 %79th of 129
- Hospital bedsunchanged +0.0 %113th of 138*
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −6.0 pts87th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts104th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts1st of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisdown −8.7 %81st of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.0 pts100th of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.2 pts81st of 141