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Infrastructure

Sector monitoring and assessment brief

Editorial review: 30 September 2026

Scope

Define the asset or service before assessing an infrastructure opportunity: a transport facility, utility, logistics service or urban asset has different users, costs and operating obligations.

Questions to assess

  • What is the service area, measured demand and available alternative?
  • Who owns, builds, operates and maintains the asset through its life cycle?
  • Which access, land, permits, utilities and payment arrangements need verification?

Evidence and limits

Population is a broad demand context, not a feasibility study. Corridor traffic, service levels and life-cycle costs need project-specific evidence.

Information needed to start

Asset type, proposed service area, operating responsibilities, demand evidence and cost assumptions.

How ABCI can support the assessment

The scope is agreed around the available evidence and the decision required. See the related service for its capabilities, deliverables and specialist coordination. Inclusion here does not claim a completed sector study, a client mandate or an available investment.

Sourced context

Institutional baseline

Population

46,118,793

2024 census · results published 2025

Total Iraqi and foreign population. Final results announced 26 November 2025. The statistical reference date must be consulted in the full census tables; the announcement does not specify it.

Definition, dates & source context
Measurement period
2024 census
Publication date
2025-11-26
Independent check
2026-09-30
Source edition
Linked publication / page; edition number not stated
Source: Ministry of Planning — 2024 census final results (published 2025) ↗

SOURCE REGISTER

Sources

The register identifies each linked publication or data series. Indicator cards retain measurement periods and definitions. An absent publication or check date is shown explicitly; the edition date is not a substitute.

  1. Ministry of Planning — 2024 census final results (published 2025)

    Linked publication / page; edition number not stated

    Published: 2025-11-26

    Independent check: 2026-09-30

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