Transparency & Licensing

Data Sources

Every number on this platform is traceable to an official government report or institutional publication. We document exactly where our data comes from — and offer the structured datasets behind it under license for research, investment, and operational use.

Our Data Governance Approach

Our primary data serves as a single source of truth, extracted meticulously from official government reports and open institutional supplements. We convert static, inaccessible documents — PDFs, scanned bulletins, and paper ledgers — into dynamic, machine-readable datasets, then structure and clean them into analyst-ready tables. The charts on this platform are free to explore; the underlying datasets are available to researchers, investors, and institutions under a data license.

Primary

Official Government Sources

These institutions are the authoritative originators of Iraq's energy data. All electricity, oil, and gas statistics are cross-referenced against their official publications.

Ministry of Oil

Iraq's primary authority on crude oil production, exports, refineries, and petroleum sector statistics.

Oil Production Exports Refineries

SOMO — State Oil Marketing Organization

Manages Iraq's oil export contracts and marketing. The definitive source for export volumes, revenues, and destination data.

Export Volumes Revenues Destinations

Ministry of Electricity

Publishes annual statistical bulletins covering generation, demand, governorate profiles, and power plant capacity.

Generation by Source Peak Demand Governorate Data Supply Hours
Supplemental

International & Institutional Sources

Used to cross-reference, extend historical coverage, and provide global context where official Iraqi data has gaps.

U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

Provides long-run historical series on Iraq's oil production, consumption, and exports — covering 1973 to the present.

Oil (1973–2025) Gas (1980–2024) Country Analysis

International Energy Agency (IEA)

Global energy statistics and Iraq-specific reports providing context on supply security, gas flaring, and energy transitions.

Global Context Gas Flaring Energy Transition

World Bank Open Data

Used for population data at the governorate level and macroeconomic indicators that contextualise energy demand trends.

Population Economic Indicators Development Stats
Licensed Data Access

Need the Full Dataset?

IEM compiles, translates, and structures Iraq's Ministry of Electricity annual reports into clean, analyst-ready spreadsheets covering all 73 domestic plants, 18 governorate distribution networks, tariff tables, fuel consumption, and the full 2010–2024 time series.

  • Plant-level generation & capacity data (2024)
  • Governorate demand, supply & loss metrics
  • Fuel consumption by plant type (gas, oil, diesel)
  • Revenue collection & consumer count by tariff class
  • Excel & CSV exports, updated annually
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