Iraq's population has risen to 45.4 million, according to preliminary results from a national census, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said on Monday.

Iraq has begun its first nationwide population census in decades in a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning in a country long impacted by conflict and political divisions

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on Monday announced the preliminary results of the country’s population census, stating that the number of residents has crossed 45 million.

Iraq has begun its first nationwide population census in decades, in a move to modernise data collection and planning in a country long affected by conflict and political divisions. The act of counting the population has also proven contentious,

Iraq's first national census since 1997, begun on November 20, has rekindled ethnic tensions across the fractured country, as Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen groups demand the count be suspended over allegations of demographic manipulation.

The population census will be carried out electronically, including data collection, classification and computation.

Iraq began its first nationwide population census in decades Wednesday, a step aimed at modernizing data collection and planning in a country long impacted by conflict and political divisions.

Iraq began its first nationwide population census in decades on Wednesday, aimed at modernising data collection and planning in a country hit by conflict and political divisions. The census is expected to have profound implications for Iraq’s resource distribution,

Iraq is holding its first nationwide census in nearly four decades this week, a long-awaited count in a nation that has been blighted by sectarian and ethnic divisions.