Sources and method

About the data

Most figures on this site come from Iraq's National Open Government Data Portal, published under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence, which allows reuse with credit to the publisher. We have not changed any figure. We only reconciled different spellings of province names between files.

Every data block on the site ends with a short source line. Its Details link brings you to the full entry below.

Datasets

Ministry of Construction projects

Publisher
Ministry of Construction, Housing, Municipalities and Public Works
Figures for
Status as of 1 Jun 2026
Dataset
Dataset 54 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
7 Jul 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • The ministry publishes project names in Arabic only. The English names are our translations, and each project page shows the official Arabic name.
  • Province pages count only projects that sit in one province. Projects that span several provinces are left out of those counts.
  • The groups under What is being built are our own, read from the official project names.

General census

Publisher
Ministry of Planning, Commission of Statistics and GIS
Figures for
Year 2024
Dataset
Dataset 17 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
8 Oct 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0

Human Development Index values

Publisher
Ministry of Planning, Commission of Statistics and GIS
Figures for
Years 2008 and 2024
Dataset
Dataset 18 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
5 Feb 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0

Students data

Publisher
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Figures for
Academic year 2024/2025
Dataset
Dataset 128 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
17 Oct 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • Students at federal public universities only.

Border crossing directorates

Publisher
Border Ports Commission
Dataset
Dataset 7 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
28 Jan 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • Crossing names are shortened from the commission's English names.

UR Portal

Publisher
National Center for Digital Transformation (UR portal)
Dataset
Dataset 109 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
26 Aug 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • Online means the service can be started on the UR portal.
  • The English service and agency names are our translations, and each service page shows the official Arabic name.

Health institutions

Publisher
Ministry of Health
Dataset
Dataset 68 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
17 Jun 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • Counted by health directorate. Halabja is not listed separately.

Health institutions working with health insurance

Publisher
Ministry of Health
Figures for
Year 2024
Dataset
Dataset 87 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
7 Jul 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • Counts are services given under the health insurance scheme in 2024.
  • The English names of institutions are our translations.
  • Areas are not part of the dataset. We took them from official pages, and each area in the table links to the page we used.

Universities

Publisher
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
Dataset
Dataset 129 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
17 Oct 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • Universities under the federal Ministry of Higher Education only. Private universities are not included.

Electronic payment services

Publisher
National Center for Digital Transformation
Dataset
Dataset 110 on nogp.gov.iq
Last updated on the portal
14 Jul 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0
  • Request totals are shown as published. The file does not say which period they cover.
  • The English service names are our translations.

Other sources

Official holidays and closures

Publisher
Council of Representatives
Law
Official Holidays Law No. 12 of 2024
Published in
Iraqi Gazette No. 4777, 27 May 2024
  • Holidays that follow the moon are calculated with the Umm al Qura calendar and marked as expected until the official date is announced.
  • Closures are entered by our editors from official announcements only, and each one links to its announcement.

How project status is derived

For each project the ministry publishes planned progress, actual progress and the contract end date, as of 1 Jun 2026. We classify each project from those figures only:

  • Completed: actual progress is 100% or more.
  • Past contract end: the contract end date is before 1 Jun 2026 and the project is not complete.
  • Behind plan: actual progress is more than 10 points below planned.
  • On track: none of the above.
  • No progress data: no actual progress figure was published.

We do not comment on or rate projects, and we do not rank provinces or companies. Contractor names are only published after a manual review.

Language

The site is in English for now; Arabic and Kurdish versions are planned. The ministry publishes project names in Arabic only. The English project names are our own translations and have not been reviewed yet, so the official Arabic name is always shown on the project page. Border crossing names are shortened from the commission's English names.

Government service names are published in Arabic only. The English service and agency names are also our own translations, not yet reviewed, and each service page shows the official Arabic name. Whether a service can be paid online is read from its official name.

Known gaps

  • Most datasets do not cover the Kurdistan Region.
  • 43 projects have no contract end date, and 30 have no actual progress figure.
  • The students file lists Muthanna twice and has no row for Al-Qadisiyah, so we show no student figures for either.

Photos

The photos on the site come from Wikimedia Commons. They are resized and cropped, and each one keeps its original licence.