The Iraqi census of 1957 was the second

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses in ...

taken in the Kingdom of Iraq. The census took place after more than 25 years of the establishment of the Iraq. The census showed that the country had a total population of 6,339,960.

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

made 95% of the total population, with

Christians Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words '' Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρ ...

coming second at 3.3%,

Yezidis Yazidis or Yezidis (; ku, ئێزیدی, translit=Êzidî) are a Kurmanji-speaking endogamous minority group who are indigenous to Kurdistan, a geographical region in Western Asia that includes parts of Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Iran. The maj ...

with 0.88%, and

Jews Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

with 0.08%. The biggest city was the capital

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...

, with a population of 490,496. {, class = class="wikitable sortable" !Governorate !Today part of !Muslims !Christians !Jewish !Mandaeans !Yezidis !Others !Unknown !Total , - , Amara ,

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, 325,900 , 1,086 , 65 , 2,579 , 71 , 9 , 113 , 329,840 , - , Baghdad ,

and

Saladin Yusuf ibn Ayyub ibn Shadi () ( – 4 March 1193), commonly known by the epithet Saladin,, ; ku, سه‌لاحه‌دین, ; was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from an ethnic Kurdish family, he was the first of both Egypt and ...

, 1,235,538 , 68,775 , 3,634 , 3,768 , 311 , 431 , 555 , 1,313,012 , - , Basra ,

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is han ...

, 489,117 , 11,238 , 352 , 2,182 , 59 , 94 , 288 , 503,330 , - , Erbil , Erbil , 265,984 , 7,198 , 1 , 41 , 20 , 2 , 137 , 273,383 , - , Diyala , Diyala , 328,410 , 816 , 67 , 223 , 12 , 195 , 113 , 329,836 , - , Diwaniya , Qadisiyah, Muthanna and

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

, 519,732 , 429 , 42 , 192 , 55 , 1 , 19 , 520,470 , - , Dulaim ,

Al-Anbar Al Anbar Governorate ( ar, محافظة الأنبار; ''muḥāfaẓat al-’Anbār''), or Anbar Province, is the largest governorate in Iraq by area. Encompassing much of the country's western territory, it shares borders with Syria, Jordan, ...

, 244,570 , 8,041 , 18 , 243 , 18 , 20 , 113 , 253,023 , - , Hilla ,

Babil ''Bābili(m)'' * sux, 𒆍𒀭𒊏𒆠 * arc, 𐡁𐡁𐡋 ''Bāḇel'' * syc, ܒܒܠ ''Bāḇel'' * grc-gre, Βαβυλών ''Babylṓn'' * he, בָּבֶל ''Bāvel'' * peo, 𐎲𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎽𐎢 ''Bābiru'' * elx, 𒀸𒁀𒉿𒇷 ''Babi ...

, 354,047 , 502 , 16 , 72 , 28 , 11 , 103 , 354,779 , - , Karbala , Karbala , 217,143 , 91 , 18 , 38 , 9 , 17 , 59 , 217,375 , - , Kirkuk , Kirkuk , 375,232 , 13,150 , 6 , 242 , 23 , 56 , 130 , 388,839 , - , Kut ,

Wasit Wasit ( ar, وَاسِط, Wāsiṭ, syr, ‎ܘܐܣܛ) is an ancient city in Wasit Governorate, south east of Kut in eastern Iraq. History The city was built by al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf in c. 702 CE on the west bank of the Tigris across from the hi ...

, 294,955 , 313 , 52 , 225 , 42 , 4 , 308 , 295,899 , - , Mosul ,

Ninawa Nineveh (; akk, ; Biblical Hebrew: '; ar, نَيْنَوَىٰ '; syr, ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern ba ...

and

Dohuk Duhok ( ku, دهۆک, translit=Dihok; ar, دهوك, Dahūk; syr, ܒܝܬ ܢܘܗܕܪܐ, Beth Nohadra) is a city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. It's the capital city of Duhok Governorate. History The city's origin dates back to the Sto ...

, 609,247 , 90,348 , 18 , 61 , 55,129 , 169 , 475 , 755,447 , - , Muntafiq ,

Dhi Qar Dhi Qar Governorate ( ar, ذي قار, translit=Thi Qār, ) is a governorate in southern Iraq. The provincial capital is Nasiriyah. Prior to 1976 the governorate was known as Muntafiq Governorate. Thi Qar was the heartland of the ancient Iraqi civ ...

, 456,885 , 314 , 17 , 1,544 , 28 , 3 , 57 , 458,848 , - , Sulaymaniya , Sulaymaniya , 302,825 , 1,925 , 13 , 15 , 23 , 23 , 71 , 304,894 , - , Total , , 6,057,493 , 206,206 , 4,906 , 11,825 , 55,885 , 1,039 , 2,606 , 6,339,960

Sources

1957 Iraqi census
(archived from the original on February 27, 2012). Demographics of Iraq