According to Adherents.com, the world Sunni population is 940 Million.
35% of Iraqi Muslims are Sunnis. See links below.
There are numerous Iraqi cultures and ethnic groups ranging from the Sunni Arabs to the Shiite Arabs, to the Marsh Arabs, to the Kurds, the Yezidi, the Yarsan, the Turcomans, the Assyrians, the Chaldeans, etc.
Sunni Islam is an offshoot of Islam who represent majority of Muslims all around the world. The larges single nation containing Sunni Muslim population is Indonesia. However; they also live as a majority in Turkey, Saudia Arabia, UAE, Bosnia, and Pakistan.
You need something to compare Saddam Hussein to. He was certainly worse than Abd al-Karim Qasem. As for whether he was better or worse than the current Iraqi government which seems incapable of stopping the insurgency, it depends on which sector of the Iraqi population you talk to. Some (especially the Kurds) favor the current Iraqi government. Others (especially Tikriti Sunni Arabs) favor Saddam Hussein.
In July 2006 estimate Iraqi population is above 27,000,000. The religious compisiton in Iraq is: Muslim 97% and Others 3% The Muslims here are divided in two sects: the Shia 60% and the Sunni 40%.
The two pieces of the question do not fit together. The "religious group comprises a majority of Iraqi population" was the Twelver Shiite Muslims and the "religious group that held political authority and economic power under the Saddam Hussein" was the Sunni Muslims. The Sunnis were an empowered minority while the Shiites were a powerless majority.
About 8% of Irans population are Sunni Muslims, the rest are Shi'a.
it is money, yes alot soon...
The majority of Iraq say it was American soldiers that bombed a sunni's car and told the sunni that it was the shia people who did it. I know it since I am Iraqi and all of the Iraqis i know say the same.
In Afghanistan, approximately 99 percent of the population is Muslim, and of those 80-85% are Sunni Muslims. In Afghanistan, most Sunni Muslims belong to and follow the Hanafi school of teaching.
Sunni Islam comprises roughly 85% of the worldwide Islamic population.