A population explosion is haunting Iraq amid demands for birth control and the legalization of child

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[size=52]A population explosion is haunting Iraq amid demands for birth control and the legalization of childbearing[/size]

[size=45]Iraq is suffering from a “population explosion” after recording more than a million births during the past year, which confirms the necessity of taking urgent steps to save the country from the “abyss” and develop strategies for legalizing births and resolving “internal” crises.[/size]
[size=45]The “happiness” of the Iraqis[/size]
[size=45]The Prime Minister’s Advisor for Economic Affairs, Mazhar Muhammad Saleh, said in an interview with (Al-Mada), “The draft national development plan for the years 2024-2028 and the next five-year plans prioritize the data of population growth in our country and the pursuit of empowering the human element to reach the targeted levels in His prosperity and happiness,” indicating that “building the Iraqi human being and his happiness is the goal of the state and the essence of the social contract (constitution) in our country.”[/size]
[size=45]He adds, “Iraq is among the group of countries with high population growth, as the annual population growth in our country is estimated at about 2.6%,” pointing out that “this percentage is not very high, because there are other countries in the developing world that have large population increases.”[/size]
[size=45]Human factor[/size]
[size=45]Saleh continues his speech, via (Al-Mada), that “the human factor is a positive factor in advancing the wealth of nations and building their future, provided that human capital is developed, especially in planning to provide physical infrastructure, the three pillars of which are health, education, and housing, in addition to the continuous pursuit of providing job opportunities.” Today, the labor market receives annually in Iraq approximately half a million new workers who are of working age and are capable and willing to do so. Such a matter must have policies that stimulate employment opportunities in the labor market, which can only be promoted by the expansion of the base of small enterprises. And the middle school, which alone automatically absorbs approximately 60% of the available labor force.”[/size]
[size=45]He points out that “providing an effective policy for youth employment is something that the Iraq Fund for Development is currently undertaking by granting soft loans to youth projects, thus contributing to the effective employment of the youth workforce of men and women and diversifying the opportunities of the national economy.”[/size]
[size=45]“Young” community[/size]
[size=45]The Prime Minister’s advisor adds, “The role of the Development Fund, or any other, represents an important pillar of the government’s economic policy in dealing positively and productively with building human beings and ensuring their future in decent living.”[/size]
[size=45]He points out that “proceeding with the development of the three central infrastructure directly related to human development (educational, health, and adequate housing) has become one of the constants of the government’s current and future economic vision, which is based on the principle of partnership between the state and the private sector,” adding that “the pledges contained in the general budget law The Federal (Tripartite) Union, which stipulates that the state provides sovereign guarantees for private sector projects, especially industrial ones, at a rate of 85% to finance industrial activities, with priority for projects that are directly linked to the physical infrastructure related to providing opportunities for the formation and investment of human capital, as it represents a positive development for the advancement of the economy. Humanitarian and in the best way.” He continues, “In the year 2037, the percentage of youth in the composition of the population in Iraq will reach no less than 60% of the total population, and then Iraq will be one of the young nations in terms of humanity, and this human gift is one of the greatest wealth of peoples that requires early and full investment to build prosperity.” Economic, social and humanitarian in our country.”[/size]
[size=45]Legalization of childbirth[/size]
[size=45]Population inflation rates in Iraq continue to rise year after year despite the decline in services and the accumulation of economic crises, amid the lack of plans for population increase, as well as the lack of a birth control law, and only “advising” women and legalizing childbearing.[/size]
[size=45]Earlier, the Ministry of Health announced that more than one million and 47 thousand births were recorded during the past year 2023, an increase of more than 140 thousand births compared to births in 2022, which portends that the country will reach the stage of “population explosion.”[/size]
[size=45]Iraq is witnessing a significant increase in its population, as it has exceeded 43 million people, according to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Planning, after its population was 35 million in 2015.[/size]
[size=45]Specialists stress the need for the Iraqi family to organize its offspring to the extent that can be controlled, and not to leave matters on the loose, which leads to social, economic and other problems.[/size]
[size=45]The Iraqi government had previously acknowledged the difficulty of issuing a law specifying childbearing in light of significant increases in population growth in recent years, after attempts it made to educate about this.[/size]
[size=45]The Ministry of Planning says that it has developed long-term population policies to achieve a balance between the increase in population and available economic resources, while indicating that the construction of residential cities during the era of the current government falls within these policies.[/size]
[size=45]Ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi mentioned in an interview with Al-Mada that “the increase in population numbers will have repercussions if it is not accompanied by policies that accommodate it.”[/size]
[size=45]Population policies[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi adds, “The population increase in Iraq is still high despite the decline in population growth rates, as we are talking about an annual increase rate of up to 2.5% annually with more than a million annual births, bringing the population to more than 43 million people.”[/size]
[size=45]He points out that “such an increase could result in rates of poverty, unemployment, and a problem with services. Therefore, the Ministry of Planning has developed long-term population policies aimed at achieving a balance between population increases and the available economic and educational resources, whether at the level of food, at the level of services, or at the level of work.” And other policies, and it includes 10 basic axes, each axes having a set of goals and policies.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi continues during his talk to (Al-Mada), that “the topics are childhood and early childhood, health, reproductive health, family planning, youth and their empowerment, empowering women and ensuring their rights, housing and solving the housing crisis in Iraq, confronting climate challenges and climate changes and reducing their effects on society, And vulnerable groups in society, such as the elderly and the disabled, who have priority, and a final axis related to addressing the causes of internal and external migration.”[/size]
[size=45]He notes that “these axes have turned into policies that achieve goals in each axis. For example, with regard to childhood, we talk about childhood and the requirements associated with it in terms of life, education, health, better living, and food security, and these are linked in this axis. Likewise, on the health side, we talk about transforming programs to build hospitals and increase the number of The family is developing cadres and providing health requirements in all its details. This also applies to housing and construction, and Iraq is currently witnessing a wide movement to build residential cities and this comes in implementation of these policies.”[/size]
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