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Report .. The population of Iraq was increasing by one person every 40 seconds
04/08/2012 0:00
The total population will reach to about 43 million people in 2025
on a conciliator Baghdad
expected the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation that the number of Iraq's population by the year 2025 to about 43 million people, while confirming that 79 percent of the land resources in Iraq suffer from degradation. A report issued by the National Committee for Population Policies, chaired by the Deputy Minister of Planning Mahdi Keywords, on the analysis of demographic situation in Iraq in 2012, the pace of annual increase to the size of the population in the country, despite the population growth rate during the past years, it still takes an upward trend and steady with an At present more than 800 thousand people, according to data from the results of a few and numbering for the year 2009 which means that the population of Iraq are getting one person every 40 seconds. He pointed to the low infant mortality and children under five years of age and mothers, but the rate of decline is still high when compared to countries Arab neighbors. He «as reduced total fertility rate from 4.7 for the period bounded by the years 19941998 to 4.3 births for women in 2006, and maintained average for this ratio in 2010 as the play patterns of marriage and its speed and the start of maternity and the time between birth and the end of the process of reproduction an important role in achieving fertility on the social level ». According to the report, the rural women give birth to children born in excess of their counterparts in urban areas as well as women without any degree give birth to 3 births almost as many bears crops university degrees or higher. According to the report, it is expected to reach the country's population 66 million in 2040, according to the scenario of low meaning they Satdhaafon year 2033 and will reach the population to 71 million people, according to the scenario of high-ie, that the population Satdhaafon after the year 2027. According to UN projections to the increasing number of Iraq's population of 32 million people in 2010 to 43 million people by 2025 which will contribute to Iraq by 10 percent of the population increase in the Arab world. showed the distribution of population of the provinces according to the residential environment, as shown in the report, the continuing decline in rural population during the census operations conducted during the years 1977 and 1987 and 1997 and 2009 as it reached during the census in 1977 to 36.3 percent and declined during the Census 1987 to 29.8 percent while the proportion rose during the 1997 Census of up to 31.6 percent due to lower growth in economic activity is agricultural dependence on imports, which encouraged large numbers of unemployed in the city to work and housing in the countryside, but the census of 2009 between decline of the percentage decline in rural population to reach 27.6 percent, as many of the aspects, as articulated by the report, may have changed after 2003 because of hardship as a result of desertification or erosion or drought or increased poverty, according to estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organization, more than 79 percent of land resources in Iraq suffer from degradation, which is the environment repellent and stimulating the migration, as described. According to the report that Baghdad is the most provinces, which saw an increase in urban population during the last census which was conducted in 2009 so that a rise of 87.2 percent, followed by Sulaymaniyah by 84.9 percent and Erbil by 83.2 percent, followed by Basra by 79.9 percent and Dohuk 73.4 percent and then Maysan by 72.4 and Najaf by 71.1 percent, pointing out that the statistical data show that the province of Baghdad in the forefront of the provinces of the country attractive to residents, as the volume of net migration to it ( 476) thousand and (282) people, and migration within them 46 percent of the total volume of migration inflows and due to the power of attraction as a result of employment opportunities in all areas, as well as the high level of social services. He added that the city of Karbala came in second place because of the attraction of religious, as the rate of immigration to it for about 7 percent, followed by the province of Basra came in third as a result the return of its population after the end of the Iran-Iraq war and the Gulf War in 1991, then Najaf by 5.7 percent as a result the religious factor, followed by Babylon by 5.3 percent, Diyala by 5.2 percent because of their proximity to capital. The annual report of the Ministry of Health in 2011 showed that the rate of population growth was 3.4 percent during the past year, as it was the birth rate crude per thousand population of 38 states birth while the crude death rate per thousand population of 4.16 percent while the rate mortality of children under age of one year per thousand births and 21 cases of death and the death rate of children under five years of age per thousand live births, 25 deaths.
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