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There is a large population of Iraqis in Iran, including Iranian citizens of Iraqi descent and Iraqi citizens of Iranian descent. According to the 2001 Iran census, there were roughly 203,000 Iraqis living in Iran; [ 2 ] a UNHCR report counts 204,000 Iraqis living in Iran. [ 3 ]
Egypt, which has pledged to end Iraqi immigration, already has 150,000 ethnic Iraqi people. The United Kingdom, whose Iraqi population comes largely if not entirely from before the 2003 Iraq War, has a population numbering between 250,000 and half a million. Iran also has approximately 204,000 Iraqi expatriates.
Many historians and anthropologists provide strong circumstantial evidence to posit that Iraq's Marsh Arabs share very strong links to the ancient Sumerians [37] [42] —the oldest human civilization in the world and most ancient inhabitants of central-southern Iraq. The Iraqi-Assyrian population was found to be significantly related to other ...
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Saddam Hussein exiled between 350,000 [4] [5] [3] to 650,000 Iraqi citizens of Iranian ancestry. [1] Most of them went to Iran. Most could prove an Iranian ancestry in Iran's court received Iranian citizenship (400,000) and some of them returned to Iraq immediately after his fall. [1]
Iran's population increased dramatically during the later half of the 20th century, reaching about 80 million by 2016. [1] [2] As of November 2024, Iran's population is around 91.5 million. [3] In recent years, however, Iran's birth rate has dropped significantly. Studies project that Iran's rate of population growth will continue to slow until ...
Iraq, [a] officially the Republic of Iraq, [b] is a country in the Middle East and West Asia.It is bordered by Turkey to the north, Saudi Arabia to the south, Iran to the east, Syria to the west, the Persian Gulf and Kuwait to the southeast, and Jordan to the southwest.
The quality of life in Iraq has decreased dramatically since 2003 [4] and therefore economic and livelihood factors also play a major role in the complex decision-making processes of displaced Iraqis. [3] Unemployment is endemic in Iraq and many IDPs, particularly women, do not have adequate access to employment opportunities. Many have also ...
Other factors include the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the Gulf War of 1991, the prolonged economic sanctions until the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, and the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. [1] Since the 1980s, Europe has been home to a significant population of Iraqi exiles, a result of the Iran-Iraq War.