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Iraq is best read through crude sales 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 how much the business can produce or handle, and whether banks and telecom-linked listed names can grow through a still-fragile operating backdrop.
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Use the key figures to see the country’s size, currency and current economic backdrop.
Pick one variable at a time and see how it has changed over time.
The final cards explain the few forces that can move companies and the local market.
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An oil-dominated frontier market where state spending, security conditions, and banking liquidity shape the opportunity set.
Macro explorer
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Iraq starter GDP-growth path anchored to sourced country profile readings; full official historical wiring is still pending.
Available variables
Trade and external position
The latest available data show exports of $104.9B and imports of $92.8B, leaving an external balance of +$12.0B. Services account for 9.7% of total exports.
This is the broadest external-demand read for Iraq, because it combines merchandise shipments with cross-border services such as travel, transport, finance, and business services.
This is the merchandise side of the export machine for Iraq, useful for judging industrial, energy, and manufacturing exposure in the trade mix.
This shows how much Iraq monetizes travel, logistics, finance, software, licensing, and other non-merchandise external flows.
Trade partners
Commodity lens
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,
What to watch
Iraq should first be read through oil sales. When this regime shifts, local how highly shares are valued and sector leadership usually shift with it.
The cleanest read usually comes from oil receipts, government spending how much the business can produce or handle, 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.
The final layer is domestic stability, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable profits support for the ISX60.
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Real GDP growth
What This Signals
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.