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Strategic Position Score

How well-positioned is this nation for the next 10 years — combining demographics, resources, stability, education, technology, and geopolitics.

33
70
Demographics
29
Resources
31
Stability
34
Education
27
Technology
10
Geopolitics
🇮🇶Iraq
Overall Score
40
Save Difficulty
Very Hard

Key driver/drag compare this nation's own metrics against each other, not a trend over time. Metrics marked live are fetched from the World Bank; derived, curated, and beta-estimated values are labeled throughout.

Global Media Signal

Media attention and tone history are not available for this country yet.

Market Pulse

Equity, currency & commodity signals

No market data available for this country yet.

Global regime:Dollar Pressure

Global markets are showing dollar-pressure signals as gold has outpaced oil.

National Momentum

3840
Economy 4346
Governance 3735
Quality of Life 5762
Innovation 2327
Stability 3031

Category deltas are illustrative baselines. Real historical data for individual metrics is shown in the charts within each category section below.

Opportunity Index

If you had to put your money somewhere — open a business, emigrate, or invest — where would this nation rank?

31
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
50
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
36
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threats

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Leadership

Current
Muhammad Shia' al-Sudani
Prime Minister · 2022–present
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LLM Insights

Predictive Analytics
Transition Risk Prediction

Forecasts how smoothly a leadership or policy transition would go, based on institutional stability and current momentum.

Resilience baselineMomentum trendGovernance scoreCrisis history
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🛡Geopolitical Risk Score

Ongoing risk signal blending external threats, alliance exposure, and shock sensitivity.

Active threatsBloc exposureShock scenariosDefense posture
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📉Stability Erosion Detection

Surfaces gradual drift across categories that wouldn't trip a hard alert on its own.

Category driftMomentum deltasQuality-of-life trendFiscal trend
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🏛Institutional Bottleneck Mapping

Identifies where governance gaps or reform friction are slowing this nation's progress.

Reform difficultyGovernance scoreRisk countLegacy constraints
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🤝Strategic Opportunity Detection

Recommends where this nation has the most upside, based on its own opportunity index.

Opportunity indexAsset strengthsUntapped verticalsBloc adjacency
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Policy Gap Detection

Flags policy or structural gaps that could expose this nation to compliance, fiscal, or reputational risk.

Threat countRegime constraintsFiscal exposureTreaty coverage
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Insights are derived from this nation's own resilience, momentum, SWOT, and opportunity data — not a live model call.

Archetypes

Energy Superpower

High-tier oil or natural gas reserves/production.

Archetypes are derived automatically from this nation's industries, resources, military, and category scores — not hand-assigned.

Resilience

46
Pandemic57

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis45

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict32

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster51

Fiscal health, food self-sufficiency, government effectiveness

Shock-response scores derived from this nation's own metrics (healthcare, fiscal health, military, food self-sufficiency, etc.), not from any actual crisis event.

AI Readiness

29.36
Early StageGlobal rank #128 / 195
Policy Capacity
35
Governance
25
AI Infrastructure
33
Public Sector Adoption
5
Development & Diffusion
35
Resilience
43

AI Strengths

    What this country is ready for

    AI Gaps

    • Governance
    • Public Sector Adoption

    What may hold it back

    Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025 · 6 pillars · 14 dimensions · 69 indicators

    Nation Profile

    Geography

    Area
    434,130 km²
    Population
    46.0M
    Density
    106.1/km²
    Coastline
    Coastal access

    Political System

    Government Type
    Federal Parliamentary Republic
    Regime (derived)
    Authoritarian
    Elections
    Multi-party elections

    Main Industries

    OilAgriculture

    Energy

    🟢Oil
    Natural Gas
    Coal
    Nuclear
    Hydropower
    Solar
    Wind

    Strategic Resources

    Lithium
    Rare Earths
    Copper
    Iron
    Gold
    🟡Silver
    Fresh Water

    Food Capacity

    Arable Land
    32.1%
    Food Exports
    55
    Self-Sufficiency
    66

    Industries and government type are best-effort curated facts. Energy/resource tiers, food capacity, and military figures are curated estimates. Area and population are sourced from World Bank (periodically refreshed).

    Live Situation

    No recent news events tracked for this country yet.

    Global Influence

    Diplomatic Relations
    35
    Governance Score
    29
    Share of Tracked GDP
    0.3%

    Bloc membership: curated fact. Diplomatic relations: bilateral partner count via Wikidata. Governance Score: World Bank WGI composite (effectiveness, anti-corruption, rule of law), scaled 0–100. "Share of Tracked GDP" is this nation's estimated GDP as a share of the 203 nations in this dataset — not a true world-GDP share.

    Military

    42
    Active Personnel
    459K
    Reserve Personnel
    Tanks
    1,188
    Aircraft
    360
    Naval Assets
    67
    Aircraft Carriers
    0
    Overseas Bases
    Nuclear Weapons
    No

    Personnel from World Bank / IISS. Equipment (tanks, aircraft, naval) from GlobalFirepower. Nuclear status and carrier counts are verified public record. Overseas bases are estimates.

    Economy

    46
    ▲ Key driverInflation (Annual) (-12.3%)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragLabor Participation (41.6%)· as of 2024

    Growth

    Inflation

    Fiscal Health

    Labor Market

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    Governance

    35
    ▲ Key driverTime to Open a Business (26 days)· as of 2019-12-31
    ▼ Key dragTransparency (23.0)· as of 2023-12-31

    Government Effectiveness

    Rule of Law

    Dispute Resolution

    Corruption

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    Quality of Life

    62
    ▲ Key driverHomicide Rate (9.46375217111484 per 100k)· as of 2013
    ▼ Key dragUniversity Graduation (15.6%)· as of 2005

    Safety

    Healthcare

    Education

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    Innovation

    27
    ▲ Key driverInternet Penetration (81.5%)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragNew Business Rate (0.116770020502616 per 1k)· as of 2022

    Tech

    Connectivity

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    Stability

    31
    ▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (30.6)· as of 2024
    ▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (30.6)· as of 2024

    Political Stability

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    Historical Trends

    World Bank
    Data coverage: 27 live·2 derived·0 curatedLast refreshed: Jul 4, 2026Methodology: Reconstructable
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