The next parliament will have 450 members.. Officially, Al-Sudani announces that the population of I

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[size=52]The next parliament will have 450 members.. Officially, Al-Sudani announces that the population of Iraq is 45 million people[/size]

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[size=45]Officially, the population of Iraq has exceeded 45 million, which means an increase in the number of representatives to 450.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Mohammed al-Sudani announced the initial figures for the population census, while Iraqis are still complaining about the non-arrival of the enumerators.
The cost of the census, according to experts, was estimated at about a trillion dinars, including the cost of the curfew days.
Al-Sudani said in a speech during a press conference, “We have accomplished a step that is the most prominent in the framework of planning, development and progress, and I thank the citizen for adhering to the curfew and cooperating with the population census teams. I also extend my thanks to the mobile population census teams, the Statistics Authority, the staff of the Ministry of Planning and the Statistics Authority in the region, and our security forces. I also extend my sincere thanks to the United Nations Population Fund for following up on the population census process and providing support and assistance, as well as the religious authorities and leaders for the major role they played in encouraging and urging them to provide information to the population census teams.”
He added that “the population census was a step that had been postponed for many years, and the last comprehensive census was in 1987,” noting that “the population census in 1997 did not include the Kurdistan Region.”
He pointed out that “our government has committed to conducting the population census and to supporting all political forces and constitutional authorities,” stressing “continuing the wheel of development that targets the reality of our current generation and future generations towards sustainable development.”
He explained that “in light of the completion of the general database in all Iraqi governorates, the population of Iraq has reached more than 45 million, 407 thousand, and 895 people,” noting that “the percentage of urban residents reached 70.3 percent and rural residents 29.7 percent.”
He explained that “the number of families reached 7 million, 898 thousand, and 588 families, and the average family size was 5.3 individuals, while the number of males reached 22 million, 784 thousand, and 62 people, representing 50.1 percent, while the number of females reached 22 million, 623 thousand, and 833 people, representing 49.8 percent. The number of families headed by women reached 11.33 percent, and those headed by men reached 88.67 percent.”
He continued that “the percentage of the population under working age less than 15 years was 36.1 percent, while the percentage of the population in working age from 15 to 64 years was 60.2 percent, and the percentage of the population over working age 65 years and over was 3.7 percent.”
He stressed that “Iraq has entered the demographic gift phase with the population reaching a working rate of 60 percent, and the population growth rate in Iraq reached 2.3 percent.”
He pointed out that "the number of housing units in Iraq reached 8 million, 37 thousand, and 221 units," noting that "the percentage of floors reached 92.1, the percentage of apartments 6.6 percent, and the percentage of mud houses 4 percent."
Iraq witnessed a general population census that included all parts of the country, including the Kurdistan Region, after more than 37 years had passed since the last operation of this kind, in which the population and housing were counted and sorted during the 20th and 21st of this November.
In contrast, the advisor to the United Nations Population Fund, Mahdi Al-Alaq, confirmed at the conference that the initial results of the population census were in line with international expectations, while pointing to the aspiration to complete the subsequent stages of the population census.
Is the census process over?!
This comes at a time when Iraqis are complaining about the failure of census teams to reach a number of homes in several governorates.
The Ministry of Planning announced, on Sunday, the start of the third and final phase of the population census.
A statement by the ministry stated that “the head of the General Authority for Statistics and Geographic Information Systems, Diaa Awad Kazim, announced the start of the third phase of the general population census, which will continue until the tenth of next month.”
He added that “the field teams will visit all families that the enumerators were unable to visit during the previous phase,” noting that “the third phase includes identifying the living characteristics of the population in the areas of health, housing, education, services, work and difficulties, and this data is of great importance for development, improving the level of services and directing the paths of service and development projects at the level of governorates, districts, sub-districts, villages and residential areas.”
The statement continued, “the field teams will visit all families during this phase, including families that have not been reached in the past two days, to complete all the data.”
The most complaints appeared in Najaf, where representatives and officials from the governorate warned of “data loss” due to technical errors in the enumerators’ tablets.
Citizens in Najaf and Baghdad also stated in television interviews that they were forced, a few hours before the end of the two census days (last Wednesday and Thursday), to search for enumerators and bring them in their private cars.
Following these complaints, the Prime Minister decided last Thursday evening to extend the general population census to a third day, while the authorities decided to lift the curfew within the governorates only.
The parliament is inflated
Regarding the statistics mentioned by Al-Sudani in his last conference, legal expert Ahmed Al-Abadi confirms that “stopping these numbers means the number of MPs will jump to 450 MPs.”
Al-Abadi confirmed that “the number of members of the new parliament should be mentioned in the upcoming elections law.”
Article 49 of the constitution states first that the seats in the parliament will be at a rate of one seat for every 100,000 people in Iraq, representing the entire Iraqi people.
In this regard, Wael Abdul Latif, a member of the 2005 constitution writing committee, says that there are opinions that “one MP should represent 250,000 people, so that the number of members of parliament now is about 150 MPs.”
Abdul Latif confirmed in a statement that “this number is reasonable now with the presence of 329 deputies, at least 100 of them are permanently absent and busy promoting transactions.”
Abdul Latif, a former judge, stressed that “the increase in the number of deputies cannot be ignored because it is constitutional and the commission will change the number of council members, or we will amend the constitution.” The increase in the number of
deputies leads to an increase in salaries to at least 3 billion and 300 million dinars per month (the average salary of a deputy is 8 million dinars per month).
However, Abdul Latif says that “the salary of one deputy reaches 30 million, while the deputy, especially in the current session, does not provide any achievement.”
The former judge considered that it would have been better to rely on the numbers of the “national card” of the Ministry of Interior, which has accurate numbers, but “they were ignored.”
The same opinion is mentioned by the professor of economics in Basra, Nabil Al-Marsoumi, who considered the talk about the numbers related to the census to be “exaggerations.”
Al-Marsoumi said in a tweet that “the population of Iraq, according to the general population census, is 45 million, which is almost the same as what the Ministry of Planning reached in its previous population estimates, which means that Iraq has a reliable database on the demographic situation, which puts an end to the great exaggerations that described the census as putting Iraq on the path to development.”
Al-Marsoumi stressed that “the census does not create development, but rather facilitates it, while development is created by political will.”[/size]
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