NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Judith Yaphe, senior research fellow at National Defense University about the demographic make-up of Iraq, and how that will affect Iraq's future. She says Sunni ...

Iraq will hold a nationwide census in October, its first in 22 years, mapping ethnic divisions in a survey which could encourage reconciliation or fan the feuds threatening its fragile calm.

The map below, created by IHS Energy, shows how the country could be split. The Kurdistan Regional Government would govern Kurdistan in the north. The Kurds hold Kirkuk, a major refinery city.

Iraq is conducting its first census in 27 years. It hasn't happened more recently because undertaking such a head count could upset a political power-sharing system that was set up to prevent ...

Iraq has carried out several censuses since the first one in 1920, which was conducted by British authorities. After a fourth one in 1947, the Iraqi monarchy established a law mandating a census ...

ISIS's rapid advancement across Iraq in the summer of 2014 has caused so far irreparable damage to any idea of unity in the country. As the following map shows, Iraqi territory can be thought of ...

Iraq is conducting its first comprehensive nationwide census in nearly four decades. The Ministry of Interior announced a two-day curfew for the extensive operation, which will see 120,000 ...

11/19/2024 November 19, 2024. Iraq is conducting its first census in 27 years. The head count could upset a political power-sharing system that was set up to prevent civil war.

Iraq is holding its first nationwide census in nearly four decades this week, a long-awaited count in a nation that has been blighted by sectarian and.

The last real and generally scientific census in Iraq was in 1957. At the time, Iraq had a population of 6.3 million. That’s just two-thirds of Baghdad’s population today.

Iraq is holding its first nationwide census in nearly four decades this week, a long-awaited count in a nation that has been blighted by sectarian and ethnic divisions.The census is scheduled for ...