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Population in Iraq compared to Serbia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Iraq was 46,042,015 in 2024 vs 6,587,202 people in Serbia in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Iraq's population is 47,813,338 people compared to 6,541,064 in Serbia.

Population statistics:

  • Iraq's population is 7.31 times bigger than Serbia's.
  • Iraq is ranked the 34th most populous country in the world, while Serbia is the 110th.
  • The countries together account for 0.66% of the world: 0.58% for Iraq vs 0.08% for Serbia.
  • For the last 10 years, Iraq has had an average growth rate of +2.45% per year vs -0.76% in Serbia.
  • Since 2005, the population of Iraq has increased from 28.4M people to 47.8M (68.3% growth), while Serbia has declined from 7.44M to 6.54M (12.1% decline).
  • Iraq is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 101M people, while Serbia's population already peaked in 1990 at 7.9M people and is projected to decrease to 3.62M people by 2100.

Iraq vs Serbia: live population counter

Iraq Serbia
Current population
47813338
6541064
Population rank 34/197 110/197
Percent of world population 0.58% 0.08%
One net population change
32.6 seconds
14.6 minutes
One birth every
27.2 seconds
8.63 minutes
One death every
2.82 minutes
5.4 minutes
One migration net change every
29.6 minutes
1.08 hours
Annual migration change -17,735 -8,132
Daily growth/decline +2,652 -99
Annual growth/decline +967,966 -35,981
Annual growth/decline rate +2.15% -0.54%
Population growth rate rank 48/197 186/197

Iraq and Serbia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Iraq
Population

Growth rate
Serbia
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Iraq Serbia Iraq Serbia
1960 7,022,052 6,638,992 - -
1961 7,194,553 6,689,077 2.46% 0.75%
1962 7,413,875 6,740,264 3.05% 0.77%
1963 7,667,928 6,787,950 3.43% 0.71%
1964 7,929,566 6,832,855 3.41% 0.66%
1965 8,202,140 6,876,624 3.44% 0.64%
1966 8,485,104 6,927,969 3.45% 0.75%
1967 8,778,869 6,966,522 3.46% 0.56%
1968 9,085,016 7,007,586 3.49% 0.59%
1969 9,403,356 7,123,249 3.5% 1.65%
1970 9,735,611 7,164,993 3.53% 0.59%
1971 10,077,809 7,211,716 3.51% 0.65%
1972 10,430,164 7,252,012 3.5% 0.56%
1973 10,795,869 7,283,902 3.51% 0.44%
1974 11,167,761 7,326,043 3.44% 0.58%
1975 11,543,639 7,368,717 3.37% 0.58%
1976 11,927,651 7,418,973 3.33% 0.68%
1977 12,331,046 7,462,783 3.38% 0.59%
1978 12,753,355 7,504,017 3.42% 0.55%
1979 13,170,365 7,541,997 3.27% 0.51%
1980 13,591,992 7,709,544 3.2% 2.22%
1981 14,006,381 7,736,787 3.05% 0.35%
1982 14,406,083 7,763,335 2.85% 0.34%
1983 14,840,555 7,788,100 3.02% 0.32%
1984 15,310,733 7,813,549 3.17% 0.33%
1985 15,683,430 7,835,902 2.43% 0.29%
1986 16,074,145 7,853,824 2.49% 0.23%
1987 16,521,049 7,868,027 2.78% 0.18%
1988 16,908,819 7,884,218 2.35% 0.21%
1989 17,364,542 7,893,787 2.7% 0.12%
1990 17,581,206 7,897,937 1.25% 0.05%
1991 17,767,253 7,595,636 1.06% -3.83%
1992 18,300,845 7,604,063 3% 0.11%
1993 19,201,195 7,614,328 4.92% 0.13%
1994 20,139,807 7,622,711 4.89% 0.11%
1995 20,825,860 7,628,264 3.41% 0.07%
1996 21,501,321 7,622,185 3.24% -0.08%
1997 22,176,593 7,598,538 3.14% -0.31%
1998 22,884,399 7,567,745 3.19% -0.41%
1999 23,636,527 7,540,401 3.29% -0.36%
2000 24,424,056 7,516,346 3.33% -0.32%
2001 25,197,840 7,503,433 3.17% -0.17%
2002 26,006,559 7,500,031 3.21% -0.05%
2003 26,802,659 7,480,591 3.06% -0.26%
2004 27,577,878 7,463,157 2.89% -0.23%
2005 28,407,448 7,440,769 3.01% -0.3%
2006 28,616,515 7,411,569 0.74% -0.39%
2007 28,391,607 7,381,579 -0.79% -0.4%
2008 28,971,036 7,350,222 2.04% -0.42%
2009 30,058,206 7,320,807 3.75% -0.4%
2010 31,045,366 7,291,436 3.28% -0.4%
2011 32,161,424 7,236,519 3.59% -0.75%
2012 33,654,842 7,201,497 4.64% -0.48%
2013 35,281,989 7,166,553 4.83% -0.49%
2014 36,550,059 7,131,787 3.59% -0.49%
2015 37,560,535 7,095,383 2.76% -0.51%
2016 38,469,627 7,058,322 2.42% -0.52%
2017 39,337,353 7,020,858 2.26% -0.53%
2018 40,265,624 6,982,604 2.36% -0.54%
2019 41,192,171 6,945,235 2.3% -0.54%
2020 42,116,605 6,899,126 2.24% -0.66%
2021 43,071,211 6,834,326 2.27% -0.94%
2022 44,070,551 6,664,449 2.32% -2.49%
2023 45,074,049 6,623,183 2.28% -0.62%
2024 46,042,015 6,587,202 2.15% -0.54%
2025 47,020,778 6,541,064 2.13% -0.7%
2026 48,007,435 6,495,033 2.1% -0.7%
2027 48,987,424 6,451,587 2.04% -0.67%
2028 49,960,955 6,407,523 1.99% -0.68%
2029 50,943,339 6,363,135 1.97% -0.69%
2030 51,937,208 6,318,273 1.95% -0.71%
2031 52,934,373 6,272,974 1.92% -0.72%
2032 53,953,395 6,227,395 1.93% -0.73%
2033 54,985,129 6,181,396 1.91% -0.74%
2034 56,012,641 6,135,163 1.87% -0.75%
2035 57,035,917 6,088,832 1.83% -0.76%
2036 58,071,740 6,042,364 1.82% -0.76%
2037 59,109,258 5,995,710 1.79% -0.77%
2038 60,132,232 5,948,872 1.73% -0.78%
2039 61,174,679 5,901,891 1.73% -0.79%
2040 62,223,208 5,855,009 1.71% -0.79%
2041 63,249,167 5,808,317 1.65% -0.8%
2042 64,260,847 5,761,829 1.6% -0.8%
2043 65,257,000 5,715,931 1.55% -0.8%
2044 66,237,772 5,670,687 1.5% -0.79%
2045 67,204,176 5,625,991 1.46% -0.79%
2046 68,150,060 5,581,867 1.41% -0.78%
2047 69,098,087 5,538,323 1.39% -0.78%
2048 70,050,118 5,495,303 1.38% -0.78%
2049 70,999,566 5,452,676 1.36% -0.78%
2050 71,928,759 5,410,466 1.31% -0.77%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Iraq increased by 9,153,087 people (a 32.2% growth), while Serbia lost 345,386 people (a 4.64% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Iraq gained 10,252,803 (a 27.3% growth), while Serbia's population decreased by -554,319 (a 7.81% decline).

Iraq was ranked 38th most populous country in 2005 and is 34th in 2025. Serbia was ranked 96th in 2005 and ranked 110th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Iraq's population will grow by 50.4% to 71,928,759 people with a rank change from 34th to 28th. The population of Serbia will decrease by 17.3% to 5,410,466 people and rank change from 110th to 125th.

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