⚡ Operating Systems in Iraq

Server operating systems are designed for computers that provide network services, such as hosting websites or storing data.

Iraq is a Western Asian country with a population of over 45 million people.

According to our research, operating systems are detected on 12.9% of websites from Iraq.

Statistics based on 590 analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top operating systems on websites in Iraq in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Linux with a substantial share of 63.2%, followed by Windows with 35.5% and Ubuntu with 21.1%.

Linux 63.2%
Windows 35.5%
Ubuntu 21.1%
Unix 1.3%
Rocky Linux 1.3%
CentOS 1.3%
Debian 1.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top systems that are more popular in Iraq than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. Unix ^(-1)
5. Rocky Linux ^(-4)

✨ Best Operating Systems

Below is a more detailed list of 7 operating systems used on sites from Iraq, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Linux San Francisco, California, United States A family of open-source, Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, originally created by Linus Torvalds and now maintained by a global community of contributors. FreeOpen source	63.2%
2	Windows Redmond, Washington, United States A family of proprietary operating systems from Microsoft used on personal computers, servers, and virtualized environments. $1,176+	35.5%
3	Ubuntu London, United Kingdom A free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux, designed for desktops, servers, cloud, and IoT environments. FreeOpen source$500+/year	21.1%
4	Unix San Francisco, California, United States A family of multitasking, multi-user operating systems originally developed at Bell Labs that became one of the foundations of modern server, networking, and enterprise computing. FreeOpen source	1.3%
5	Rocky Linux Albany, California, United States An open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreeOpen source	1.3%
6	CentOS Raleigh, North Carolina, United States A discontinued open-source Linux distribution compatible with RHEL. Legacy	1.3%
7	Debian New York, United States A free and open-source Linux distribution that provides a stable operating system with a strong focus on reliability, security, and universal compatibility across multiple hardware architectures. FreeOpen source	1.3%

👉 See Also

🌎 Operating Systems in other countries
- Kuwait
- Oman
- Qatar

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 590 websites from Iraq.
We currently track the presence of 22 operating systems across the web.
Of these, 7 were detected on websites from Iraq.
Statistics were last calculated on November 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.