ios: 4.85 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 13 (1997)

Televisions: 1.75 million (1997)

Internet country code: .iq

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000)

Internet users: 12,500 (2001)

Transportation Iraq

Railways: total: 2,339 km standard gauge: 2,339 km 1.435-m gauge (2001)

Highways: total: 45,550 km paved: 38,400 km unpaved: 7,150 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: 1,015 km note: Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime
traffic for about 130 km; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use;
Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft
boats; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before
closing in 1991 because of the Gulf war

Pipelines: crude oil 4,350 km; petroleum products 725 km; natural gas
1,360 km

Ports and harbors: Umm Qasr, Khawr az Zubayr, and Al Basrah have limited
functionality

Merchant marine: total: 25 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 186,709
GRT/278,575 DWT ships by type: cargo 14, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1,
petroleum tanker 8, roll on/roll off 1 (2002 est.)

Airports: 108 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 73 over 3,047 m: 20 2,438 to
3,047 m: 34 914 to 1,523 m: 6 under 914 m: 7 (2001) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6

Airports - with unpaved runways: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: Heliports: 4
(2001)

Military Iraq

Military branches: Army, Republican Guard, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense
Force, Border Guard Force, Fedayeen Saddam

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 6,135,847 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 3,430,819
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 274,035
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $1.3 billion (FY00)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues Iraq

Disputes - international: despite restored diplomatic relations in
1990, lacks maritime boundary with Iran and disputes land boundary,
navigation channels, and other issues from eight-year war; in November
1994, Iraq formally accepted the UN-demarcated border with Kuwait which
had been spelled out in Security Council Resolutions 687 (1991), 773
(1993), and 883 (1993); this formally ends earlier claims to Kuwait and
to Bubiyan and Warbah islands although the government continues periodic
rhetorical challenges; dispute over water d