With a deficit of 8.9 trillion dinars, Shafaq News publishes early warning indicators for the Iraqi economy.
Early warning indicators for the Iraqi economy for the fourth quarter of 2025, issued by the National Accounts Directorate, showed that the gross domestic product at current prices reached 82.1 trillion dinars, amid mixed developments in the oil, trade, banking, energy and stock market sectors. Regionalnews updates
According to the report, which was reviewed by Shafaq News Agency and prepared based on an analysis of trade and financial data, Iraq’s GDP, excluding the oil sector, reached 53.9 trillion dinars during the last quarter of last year, reflecting the size of the non-oil sectors’ activity.
The government report indicated that the state’s general budget deficit reached 8.9 trillion dinars during the same period, while the official exchange rate remained stable at 1,300 dinars per US dollar.
On the financial and banking front, indicators revealed that the total bank credit granted reached 75.6 trillion dinars, while the trading volume in the Iraq Stock Exchange (regular) recorded about 0.1 trillion dinars.
In the trade sector, the report explained that the decline in merchandise exports led to a decrease in the country’s net trade balance, resulting in a trade surplus that stabilized at $4 billion during the fourth quarter of last year. The banking sector also witnessed a decrease in cash assets and a decline in the narrow and broad money supply.
As for the energy sector, the amount of electricity produced locally reached 35,529,823 megawatt-hours, compared to the importation of 295,609 megawatt-hours of electricity to cover the deficit in the national grid during the same period.
Shafaq.com