Capture fisheries production in Iraq

Capture fisheries in Iraq landed 41,100 tonnes in 2024.

Measure: Capture fisheries production Unit: Metric tonnes Data: 1960 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Iraq, 2024 41,100 Metric tonnes
Change from 2023 −2.5% 2023: 42,144 tonnes
World, 2024 94,403,126 tonnes Official aggregate
Position in 2024 112th of 215 See the full ranking

Capture fisheries production in Iraq over time

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Metric tonnes. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Capture fisheries production (metric tonnes), 2000 to 2024
Period IraqWorld
2024 41,100 tonnes 94,403,126 tonnes
2023 42,144 tonnes 92,981,262 tonnes
2022 44,550 tonnes 93,221,970 tonnes
2021 43,680 tonnes 93,590,253 tonnes
2020 34,770 tonnes 91,609,572 tonnes
2019 40,069 tonnes 94,910,375 tonnes
2018 36,936 tonnes 98,740,431 tonnes
2017 35,220 tonnes 95,664,397 tonnes
2016 31,300 tonnes 92,195,579 tonnes
2015 27,296 tonnes 94,357,557 tonnes
2014 59,000 tonnes 93,466,633 tonnes
2013 56,853 tonnes 93,116,007 tonnes
2012 51,077 tonnes 91,395,933 tonnes
2011 31,541 tonnes 94,143,395 tonnes
2010 19,348 tonnes 89,688,933 tonnes
2009 28,245 tonnes 91,445,934 tonnes
2008 34,580 tonnes 92,325,811 tonnes
2007 53,032 tonnes 93,503,695 tonnes
2006 59,075 tonnes 93,672,351 tonnes
2005 26,008 tonnes 95,594,652 tonnes
2004 12,936 tonnes 95,878,960 tonnes
2003 17,200 tonnes 91,084,188 tonnes
2002 26,000 tonnes 93,786,009 tonnes
2001 33,300 tonnes 93,409,856 tonnes
2000 20,767 tonnes 96,170,993 tonnes

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −2.5% from 42,144 tonnes in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 59,000 tonnes, the figure has changed by −30.3%.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Iraq has the 112th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 94,403,126 tonnes.

Source and dates

Original producer
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
ER.FSH.CAPT.MT · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1960 to 2024 for Iraq
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)