Statistics predict Kurdistan Region population decline

Government statistics show that the population of the Kurdistan Region has been on the decline in recent years with Sulaimani city seeing the lowest population growth.

 

Iraqi & KRG planning ministries predict a Kurdish population decline to 14.9% by 2020 compared to 18% in 2003

 

Sirwan Mohammed, Head of Kurdistan Region’s statistics department says this kind of slow growth or decline is not good for a young and nondependent place like the Kurdistan Region.

Iraq’s population is predicted to reach 43 million by 2022 compared to KRG’s 6.5 millions.