Ministry of Planning: A quarter of Iraq's population is below the poverty line

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[size=52]Ministry of Planning: A quarter of Iraq's population is below the poverty line[/size]

[size=45]The lowest percentage in Kurdistan and the highest in Muthanna[/size]
[size=45]The Federal Ministry of Planning confirmed that about a quarter of Iraq's population lives below the poverty line, noting that the lowest poverty rate in the country is in the Kurdistan Region.[/size]
[size=45]Ministry spokesman Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi said in a televised interview, "The levels of poverty vary and fluctuate according to the circumstances the country is going through." Iraq, and at the end of 2013, the poverty rate reached 18%, based on a plan drawn up.”[/size]
[size=45]He continued, "In 2014, we entered the tunnel of the double crisis, the ISIS pandemic and the decline in oil prices, and in 2018, the second strategy was launched, and the poverty rate was approximately 22.5, while the percentage in 2019 was 20%."[/size]
[size=45]And he added, “In 2020, we entered the Corona pandemic and things returned to what they were, as the percentage reached 31.7%, and after the return of life, the economic movement began to be active and at the beginning of 2021 we found that the percentage amounted to 25%.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi said: "The poverty rate now ranges between 23-25%, and we will carry out a new survey soon to find out exactly what the percentage is."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that «the percentage is considered high in the liberated areas, where it is approximately 41%, while the poverty rate in the south is 32%, and Al-Muthanna governorate is considered to be on the throne of the highest governorate in the poverty rate at 52%, followed by Al-Diwaniyah by 49% ».[/size]
[size=45]And he indicated that “the poverty rate in the central governorates is 18%, in Baghdad 12%, and in the Kurdistan Region 12% as well,” noting that “the third five-year development plan focuses on the issue of transformation in the economy, but there are obstacles and voices that stand against this transformation and may delay the implementation of plans.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "there are public government companies that burden the budget and the economy without providing production or economic value," noting that "the delay in approving budgets impedes the implementation of development plans, and the recovery plan from the effects of Corona collided with the budget delay."[/size]
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