Iraq
Republic of Iraq
- Capital
- Baghdad
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 47 million
- Currency
- IQD
- Area
- 438,317 km²
Across Iraq's 23 priced cities, one person needs about $1,010 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $612.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
51out of 100
- Purchasing power25%46
- Safety20%61
- Health care15%47
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%54
- Connectivity10%23
- Cost10%75
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #95
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
35.9
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
8.7
New York = 100
Purchasing power
74.4
New York = 100
One person
$1,010
A month, rent included
Net salary
$612
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$467
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$5,410
2025
Growth
−2.2%
2025
Unemployment
15.5%
2025
Inflation
0.3%
2025
Life expectancy
72.4 years
2024
Internet users
81%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 3%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 300%
- SourceWikipedia
- Social security, employee
- 5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 12%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 60.5
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 39.5
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2013
- 9.5
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #115 worldwide
- 50
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #62 worldwide
- 72
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +21%
Cities in Iraq
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Al Kufah | 64 | 32.6 | $191 | $1,031 | 173.1 | 110K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 2Al-mawsil | 64 | 29.7 | $115 | $611 | 124.5 | 1.7M | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 3Ba'qubah | 62 | 28.0 | $267 | $725 | 120.7 | 152.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 4Al Fallujah | 61 | 35.8 | — | — | — | 190.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 5Ash Sharqāt | 60 | — | — | — | — | 160K | Low confidence |
| 6Al-miqdadiyah | 60 | 38.6 | — | — | — | 156K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Al Mawşil al Jadīdah | 59 | — | — | — | — | 2.1M | Low confidence |
| 8An Nasiriyah | 59 | 31.5 | — | $764 | 119.5 | 558.4K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 9An Najaf | 59 | 32.7 | $258 | $730 | 111.5 | 482.6K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 10Simele | 59 | — | — | — | — | 152.5K | Low confidence |
| 11Sumayl | 59 | — | — | — | — | 152.5K | Low confidence |
| 12Xebat | 59 | — | — | — | — | 148K | Low confidence |
| 13Sīnah | 59 | — | — | — | — | 128.8K | Low confidence |
| 14Dohuk (Duhok) | 59 | 31.5 | $177 | $447 | 78.5 | 340.9K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 15Baḥarkah | 59 | — | — | — | — | 130.5K | Low confidence |
| 16Khasnahzān | 59 | — | — | — | — | 146.6K | Low confidence |
| 17'Ākra | 59 | — | — | — | — | 105.4K | Low confidence |
| 18Erbil (Irbil) | 59 | 42.9 | $467 | $603 | 62.1 | 1.6M | High confidence, 30 contributors |
| 19Sulaymaniyah (Sulaimanyia) | 59 | 33.5 | $229 | $573 | 89.5 | 878.1K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 20Ar Ramadi | 58 | — | — | — | — | 223.5K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 21Kirkuk | 58 | 32.2 | $191 | $439 | 74.5 | 1M | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 22Ad Diwaniyah | 58 | 28.2 | $76.36 | $382 | 87.2 | 318.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 23Ţūz Khūrmātū | 58 | — | — | — | — | 120.7K | Low confidence |
| 24As Samawah | 58 | 31.7 | $120 | — | — | 152.9K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 25Mosul | 58 | 32.0 | $160 | $481 | 86.0 | 1.7M | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 26Rānyah | 58 | — | — | — | — | 114.2K | Low confidence |
| 27Karbala | 57 | 30.2 | $153 | $395 | 74.4 | 1.2M | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 28Bayjī | 57 | — | — | — | — | 173.7K | Low confidence |
| 29Sāmarrā’ | 57 | — | — | — | — | 158.5K | Low confidence |
| 30Qeładizê | 57 | — | — | — | — | 140.7K | Low confidence |
| 31Abū Ghurayb | 57 | — | — | — | — | 900K | Low confidence |
| 32Nāḩiyat al Iskandarīyah | 57 | — | — | — | — | 100.6K | Low confidence |
| 33Al Maḩmūdīyah | 57 | — | — | — | — | 350K | Low confidence |
| 34Sadr City | 56 | — | — | — | — | 1.2M | Low confidence |
| 35Abu Gharaq | 55 | — | — | — | — | 108.2K | Low confidence |
| 36Al Hillah | 55 | 36.3 | $280 | $509 | 70.6 | 455.7K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 37Al-Musayab | 55 | — | — | — | — | 101.9K | Low confidence |
| 38Al Hindīyah | 55 | — | — | — | — | 139.6K | Low confidence |
| 39Al Madīnah | 55 | — | — | — | — | 255K | Low confidence |
| 40Zakho | 54 | 38.2 | $115 | $650 | 107.8 | 95.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 41Qal‘at Sukkar | 53 | — | — | — | — | 110K | Low confidence |
| 42Ash Shaţrah | 53 | — | — | — | — | 182.2K | Low confidence |
| 43Kelar | 52 | — | — | — | — | 250K | Low confidence |
| 44Al-'amarah | 52 | 30.0 | $153 | $501 | 95.0 | 323.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 45Al Kut | 52 | — | — | — | — | 315.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 46Baghdadi | 52 | 34.1 | $150 | $500 | 86.2 | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 47Khānaqīn | 51 | — | — | — | — | 175K | Low confidence |
| 48An Nu‘mānīyah | 51 | — | — | — | — | 110K | Low confidence |
| 49Koysinjaq | 51 | 38.6 | — | — | — | 45K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 50Al Fāw | 51 | — | — | — | — | 104.6K | Low confidence |
| 51Al Qurnah | 51 | — | — | — | — | 134.2K | Low confidence |
| 52Basra | 50 | 35.9 | $471 | $764 | 86.5 | 1.3M | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 53Abū al-Kahṣīb | 50 | — | — | — | — | 357.8K | Low confidence |
| 54Sinjar | 50 | 24.8 | $53.48 | $229 | 61.4 | 38.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 55Baghdad | 47 | 37.3 | $576 | $612 | 61.5 | 7.2M | High confidence, 40 contributors |
| 56Az Zubayr | 46 | — | — | — | — | 122.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 57Tikrit | 46 | — | — | $308 | — | 42.5K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 58'aqrah | 46 | — | — | — | — | 23K | Low confidence |
| 59Al Kazimiyah | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 60Umm Qaşr | 46 | — | — | — | — | 107.6K | Low confidence |