Iraq — Market Overview
🇮🇶 Iraq
Iraq is best read through crude revenues and public-sector transmission because fiscal spending, infrastructure activity, and the confidence backdrop still depend heavily on the oil cycle and on domestic stability. The cleanest read usually comes from oil receipts, government spending throughput, and whether banks and telecom-linked listed names can grow through a still-fragile operating backdrop.
Carte régionale
Faits clés
Iraq en un coup d'œil
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Source : Central Statistical Organization Iraq,
Country dashboard
Pourquoi ce marché compte
This first pass is built as a reusable country page instead of a static essay. The page now combines a stylized country map, a switchable line-chart explorer, and linked peer countries so users can move from Iraq into the rest of the region without losing the macro frame.
Explorateur macro
Changez de variable, gardez le contexte du pays
GDP, inflation, labor, policy, and industrial activity are shown on a quarterly path from 2000 onward, while debt and the local equity benchmark come in when usable history exists. This keeps the page focused on fiscal room and macro regime while the broader official country pipeline keeps expanding.
Real GDP growth
Iraq starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Variables disponibles
Commerce et position extérieure
Exportations, services et balance extérieure
Plutôt qu'un mur générique de cartes macro, cette section se concentre sur la manière dont le pays attire la demande étrangère, où se situe son avantage commercial et comment évolue sa balance extérieure.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Iraq is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Iraq is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Partenaires commerciaux
Où le pays commerce
Prisme des matières premières
Exposition aux matières premières
Trade in goods and services equaled 70.7% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 9.7% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 0.0% of merchandise exports in 2016.
Fuel exports accounted for 100.0% of merchandise exports in 2016, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 0.0% of merchandise exports in 2016, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Source : World Bank API: totalExports,
Ce qu'il faut surveiller
Grille de lecture
oil revenues
Iraq should first be read through oil revenues. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
public spending
The cleanest read usually comes from oil receipts, government spending throughput, and whether banks and telecom-linked listed names can grow through a still-fragile operating backdrop. That makes public spending one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
domestic stability
The final layer is domestic stability, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the ISX60.
Autres pays
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Chaque carte ouvre le même modèle de pays avec sa propre carte, des variables macro permutables et une vue de référence. C'est le premier réseau lié de pages pays de la région.
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A large sanctions-affected market driven by inflation, currency weakness, commodities, and domestic liquidity.
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A large Gulf market driven by oil, state-led investment, banking liquidity, and the Vision 2030 capex cycle.
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🇹🇷 Turkey
A high-beta market where inflation, rates, FX credibility, banks, and exporters all collide in the valuation story.
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🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
A Gulf hub market shaped by oil-linked liquidity, property, banking, and cross-border capital flows.
Real GDP growth
Ce que cela signale
GDP growth is published quarterly and annualized, so each point captures how fast real output was expanding or contracting versus the prior quarter at an annual rate. It matters because it is the broadest scorecard of domestic economic momentum and sets the backdrop for revenues, employment, and policy expectations. Versus a year ago, the series is lower by 3.2%, which points to a softer or less supportive backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still downward.