Abstract Predicting the future behavior of time series is an important topic in statistical science. Therefore, the forecast of electricity production in Iraq is important as the daily need for electricity in .all areas of life In this study, two methods of prediction were selected, namely the Box Jenkins method and the exponential boot methods, where the two methods were compared to the best method of prediction in the first two methods based on MAPE and MAE and the second comparison between the real values of 2011 forz the types of production and predictive values for the same year according to RMSE.