ABSTRACT
The last reliable census that broke down Iraq’s population into ethnic groups took place in 1957. Subsequently, the Ba’ath Party regime systematically manipulated census data to increase the proportion of Arabs at the expense of other ethnicities. As a result, attaching numbers to Iraq’s large number of ethnic and sectarian communities will be a matter of educated speculation until an up-to-date census is conducted. Ethnically, Iraq is approximately 75–80 per cent Arab, 15–20 per cent Kurd, with the remainder a mix of Assyrians, Turkomans, Chaldeans and various other smaller groups (Map 92). Irq: ethnic groups https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203805510/22f9ab71-c55c-4c4a-ba92-f9a2b09668b9/content/map92_C.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
