Can I delete my icloud back ups with out loosing my current data on my iphone 5

Hey guys.  I was wondering if I can delete my iCloud backup  with out loosing my current data on my iphone 5?  I can not up date my phone because it says I do not have enough storage available.  Yes, I have purchased more storage space on iCloud. 
Thank you!

Yes you could delete backups without loosing anything on your device, but iCloud storage has nothing to do with your local device capacity. I guess that your device is just full and that you have to delete something like apps, movies etc to free up some space for other content.
iCloud uses its storage only for
Photos and videos in the Camera Roll
Device settings (for example: Phone Favorites, Wallpaper, and Mail, Contacts, Calendar accounts)
App data
Home screen and app organization
Messages (iMessage, SMS, and MMS)
Ringtones
Visual Voicemails
purchases of apps, music, videos do not count against your iCloud storage capacity ( but please see also iCloud backup and restore overview http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4859).

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