Planning: The 38 million population of Iraq
1/22/2017
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Baghdad , Ahmed Abed Rabbo ,
predicted the Ministry of Planning to hit the country 's population, by the end of this year, to 38 million.
As indicated it was working to find a balance between the economic resources of the country 's population growth, it confirmed that a census depends on the circumstances of the country after the end of the edits. He said the ministry spokesman, Abdul Zahra al- Hindawi said in a statement the "morning", said the country 's population, according to the assumptions of population and the stability of the birth and death rate, arrived over the past year to 36 million and 800 thousand people, and expected to arrive by the end of this year, to nearly 38 million.
He added ,: The population growth rate in spite of falling to 2.5 percent in the last term, but it is still high compared to countries in the region, pointing out that the proportion of urban residents stood at 70 percent compared to 30 percent of the rural population.
Hindawi promised Iraqi society, the growing communities of population due to the net replacement rate of children born per woman of childbearing age age (15-49 years), and the total fertility rate by four live births per woman during her reproductive period.
He pointed out that the ministry is working within the framework of the national document population policies, to include future visions and plans, aimed at finding a balance between population growth and economic resources available in the country, explaining that the document contains several axes for the advancement of reproductive health, education, women 's empowerment, as well as the advancement of young people by solving the problem of Alexan.obouksos conduct the census, said the ministry spokesman, said that its implementation is due to the general situation of the country, after the end of editing operations areas of the gangs "Daesh" terrorist, indicating that scheduled , requires a safe and stable environment politically.
The general census of population in the country, which was scheduled to take place the year 2007, for several times, because of the security situation and political differences, particularly over the disputed areas in Kirkuk, Nineveh and Diyala.
The latest census carried out in 1997, showed that the population reached about 19 million people, with the exception of the provinces of the Kurdistan region, where officials estimated wearer's three million people.
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