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Population in the Cayman Islands compared to Iraq: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of the Cayman Islands was 74,457 in 2024 vs 46,042,015 people in Iraq in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Cayman Islands' population is 76,930 people compared to 47,813,338 in Iraq.

Population statistics:

  • Iraq's population is 622 times bigger than the Cayman Islands'.
  • The Cayman Islands is ranked the 187th most populous country in the world, while Iraq is the 34th.
  • The countries together account for 0.58% of the world: 0.0009% for the Cayman Islands vs 0.58% for Iraq.
  • For the last 10 years, the Cayman Islands has had an average growth rate of +2.19% per year vs +2.45% in Iraq.
  • Since 2005, the population of the Cayman Islands has increased from 46.8K people to 76.9K (64.4% growth), while Iraq has grown from 28.4M to 47.8M (68.3% growth).
  • The Cayman Islands is projected to reach its peak in 2097 at 118K people compared to the peak of 101M people in 2100 for Iraq.

Cayman Islands vs Iraq: live population counter

Cayman Islands Iraq
Current population
76930
47813338
Population rank 187/197 34/197
Percent of world population 0.0009% 0.58%
One net population change
6.17 hours
32.6 seconds
One birth every
10.1 hours
27.2 seconds
One death every
1.04 days
2.82 minutes
One migration net change every
9.78 hours
29.6 minutes
Annual migration change +896 -17,735
Daily growth/decline +4 +2,652
Annual growth/decline +1,419 +967,966
Annual growth/decline rate +1.94% +2.15%
Population growth rate rank 56/197 48/197

the Cayman Islands and Iraq: population history and growth rate by year chart

Cayman Islands
Population

Growth rate
Iraq
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Cayman Islands Iraq Cayman Islands Iraq
1960 8,428 7,022,052 - -
1961 8,601 7,194,553 2.05% 2.46%
1962 8,781 7,413,875 2.09% 3.05%
1963 8,970 7,667,928 2.15% 3.43%
1964 9,166 7,929,566 2.19% 3.41%
1965 9,361 8,202,140 2.13% 3.44%
1966 9,560 8,485,104 2.13% 3.45%
1967 9,769 8,778,869 2.19% 3.46%
1968 9,971 9,085,016 2.07% 3.49%
1969 10,165 9,403,356 1.95% 3.5%
1970 10,517 9,735,611 3.46% 3.53%
1971 11,098 10,077,809 5.52% 3.51%
1972 11,764 10,430,164 6% 3.5%
1973 12,438 10,795,869 5.73% 3.51%
1974 13,114 11,167,761 5.43% 3.44%
1975 13,788 11,543,639 5.14% 3.37%
1976 14,454 11,927,651 4.83% 3.33%
1977 15,105 12,331,046 4.5% 3.38%
1978 15,727 12,753,355 4.12% 3.42%
1979 16,351 13,170,365 3.97% 3.27%
1980 17,079 13,591,992 4.45% 3.2%
1981 17,905 14,006,381 4.84% 3.05%
1982 18,750 14,406,083 4.72% 2.85%
1983 19,598 14,840,555 4.52% 3.02%
1984 20,454 15,310,733 4.37% 3.17%
1985 21,324 15,683,430 4.25% 2.43%
1986 22,197 16,074,145 4.09% 2.49%
1987 23,073 16,521,049 3.95% 2.78%
1988 23,951 16,908,819 3.81% 2.35%
1989 24,874 17,364,542 3.85% 2.7%
1990 25,999 17,581,206 4.52% 1.25%
1991 27,294 17,767,253 4.98% 1.06%
1992 28,621 18,300,845 4.86% 3%
1993 29,976 19,201,195 4.73% 4.92%
1994 31,352 20,139,807 4.59% 4.89%
1995 32,743 20,825,860 4.44% 3.41%
1996 34,143 21,501,321 4.28% 3.24%
1997 35,543 22,176,593 4.1% 3.14%
1998 36,922 22,884,399 3.88% 3.19%
1999 38,284 23,636,527 3.69% 3.29%
2000 39,674 24,424,056 3.63% 3.33%
2001 41,089 25,197,840 3.57% 3.17%
2002 42,514 26,006,559 3.47% 3.21%
2003 43,934 26,802,659 3.34% 3.06%
2004 45,352 27,577,878 3.23% 2.89%
2005 46,788 28,407,448 3.17% 3.01%
2006 48,232 28,616,515 3.09% 0.74%
2007 49,687 28,391,607 3.02% -0.79%
2008 51,151 28,971,036 2.95% 2.04%
2009 52,618 30,058,206 2.87% 3.75%
2010 54,099 31,045,366 2.81% 3.28%
2011 55,606 32,161,424 2.79% 3.59%
2012 57,136 33,654,842 2.75% 4.64%
2013 58,655 35,281,989 2.66% 4.83%
2014 60,160 36,550,059 2.57% 3.59%
2015 61,642 37,560,535 2.46% 2.76%
2016 63,100 38,469,627 2.37% 2.42%
2017 64,535 39,337,353 2.27% 2.26%
2018 65,941 40,265,624 2.18% 2.36%
2019 67,327 41,192,171 2.1% 2.3%
2020 68,684 42,116,605 2.02% 2.24%
2021 70,108 43,071,211 2.07% 2.27%
2022 71,591 44,070,551 2.12% 2.32%
2023 73,038 45,074,049 2.02% 2.28%
2024 74,457 46,042,015 1.94% 2.15%
2025 75,842 47,020,778 1.86% 2.13%
2026 77,197 48,007,435 1.79% 2.1%
2027 78,532 48,987,424 1.73% 2.04%
2028 79,852 49,960,955 1.68% 1.99%
2029 81,146 50,943,339 1.62% 1.97%
2030 82,412 51,937,208 1.56% 1.95%
2031 83,676 52,934,373 1.53% 1.92%
2032 84,915 53,953,395 1.48% 1.93%
2033 86,125 54,985,129 1.42% 1.91%
2034 87,319 56,012,641 1.39% 1.87%
2035 88,457 57,035,917 1.3% 1.83%
2036 89,597 58,071,740 1.29% 1.82%
2037 90,741 59,109,258 1.28% 1.79%
2038 91,867 60,132,232 1.24% 1.73%
2039 92,983 61,174,679 1.21% 1.73%
2040 94,101 62,223,208 1.2% 1.71%
2041 95,206 63,249,167 1.17% 1.65%
2042 96,287 64,260,847 1.14% 1.6%
2043 97,352 65,257,000 1.11% 1.55%
2044 98,386 66,237,772 1.06% 1.5%
2045 99,371 67,204,176 1% 1.46%
2046 100,330 68,150,060 0.96% 1.41%
2047 101,257 69,098,087 0.92% 1.39%
2048 102,188 70,050,118 0.92% 1.38%
2049 103,075 70,999,566 0.87% 1.36%
2050 103,943 71,928,759 0.84% 1.31%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of the Cayman Islands increased by 14,854 people (a 31.7% growth), while Iraq gained 9,153,087 people (a 32.2% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, the Cayman Islands gained 15,288 (a 24.8% growth), while Iraq's population increased by 10,252,803 (a 27.3% growth).

The Cayman Islands was ranked 189th most populous country in 2005 and is 187th in 2025. Iraq was ranked 38th in 2005 and ranked 34th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) the Cayman Islands' population will grow by 35.1% to 103,943 people with a rank change from 187th to 184th. The population of Iraq will increase by 50.4% to 71,928,759 people and rank change from 34th to 28th.

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