{"id":152397,"date":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/152397\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T13:31:09","slug":"2024-iraqs-census-reshapes-baghdad-erbil-calculations-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/152397\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Iraq\u2019s census reshapes Baghdad-Erbil calculations &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-06-09T13:03:25+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah<\/p>\n<p>The Kurdistan Region accounted for 14.4% of Iraq&#8217;s total<br \/>\npopulation, according to the latest national census, replacing the previously<br \/>\nused estimate of 12.7% that Baghdad had long relied on in its dealings with the<br \/>\nRegion, a Kurdish official told Shafaq News on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shwan Kamal, director of Al-Sulaymaniyah Statistics<br \/>\nDirectorate, said that &#8220;the government of Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi<br \/>\nshould take the new figure into account in future agreements with the Region,<br \/>\nparticularly those related to the federal budget and other financial and<br \/>\nadministrative arrangements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are still analyzing <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/society\/Iraqi-Planning-Ministry-affirms-census-data-fully-secure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">census<\/a> data to determine<br \/>\npoverty rates, levels of commercial, economic, and industrial activity, he<br \/>\nsaid, adding that specialized institutions are coordinating with Iraq&#8217;s<br \/>\nMinistry of Planning to publish additional detailed results.<\/p>\n<p>According to political analyst Karzan Abdulrahman, the<br \/>\ncensus <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Kurdistan\/Kurdistan-accuses-Iraq-of-census-manipulation-over-budget-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">results<\/a> entitle the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to a larger<br \/>\nshare of resources than in previous years, noting that it provides services in<br \/>\nKurdish-populated areas outside its administration. He stated that the 14.4% of<br \/>\nIraq\u2019s 46.1 million population does not fully reflect the scope of those<br \/>\nresponsibilities, suggesting that the proportion of Iraqis benefiting from KRG<br \/>\nservices could exceed 20% if those areas are taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Shafaq News, Abdulrahman indicated that KRG<br \/>\ninstitutions continue to provide healthcare, education, municipal services, and<br \/>\naspects of public administration in those areas, while portions of some<br \/>\ninstitutional budgets are allocated to serve their residents.<\/p>\n<p>The November 20\u201321, 2024, census was Iraq\u2019s first<br \/>\ncomprehensive nationwide enumeration in 37 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Report\/Iraq-s-population-surges-past-46M-Burden-or-opportunity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraq\u2019s population surges past 46M: Burden or opportunity?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-06-09T13:03:25+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Al-Sulaymaniyah The Kurdistan Region accounted for 14.4% of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[48863,48865,152,48864,94,48866],"class_list":["post-152397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-2024-iraqs-census-reshapes-baghdad-erbil-calculations","tag-agreements","tag-breaking","tag-census","tag-iraq","tag-resources-share"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116720401456231143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}