Iraq Other Erotic

This residual category covers Iraqi populations not enumerated in the other composition rows — approximately 1% of the population. Includes Iraqi Mandaean (~5,000-10,000 remaining in Iraq after substantial post-2003 emigration; cross-border with the Iranian Mandaean community), Iraqi Shabak (~250,000+, a distinct Kurdish-related Twelver Shia community of Nineveh Plain with substantial cultural-religious distinctness), Iraqi Kakai / Yarsani (a Kurdish syncretic religious community related to Iranian Yarsani), Iraqi Roma / Domari, Iraqi Persian (Faili Kurd, Iranian-related populations historically present in Baghdad and other major cities), Iraqi Jewish community (now nearly extinct in Iraq with ~3-5 individuals remaining; the historic Iraqi Jewish community of approximately 130,000+ in 1948 substantially emigrated to Israel during the 1950-1951 Operation Ezra and Nehemiah, with the remaining community substantially eliminated through subsequent decades of emigration and persecution), plus other smaller groups.