Parliament says the Minister of Planning to discuss the census
08/03/2011 0:00
Baghdad / Iraq's future
Committee announced the economy and investment representative, today announced the host and Planning Minister next week to discuss the possibility of conducting the general census of population in the country. The Member of the economy and investment Nahida Daini said the House would add Planning Minister next week to follow up on the basics and new cities as well as see the details of the general census of population and how Ansiabatha in the country.
economists warn of the vulnerability of many development plans to the disruption that were not there an accurate database can be relied on to implement those plans, and this is to conduct the general census of population in the country.
She Daini that the Committee on the economy and investment will be discussed with the minister the issue of ratification of the budget allocated to the General Census of Population and reasons for the delay.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi said in earlier that the ministry has completed all phases of inventory and numbering, and this will be the completion of half the stage of the census year.
It is said that the first census took place in the country was in 1934 that the number of population at the time, three million people, followed by the census of 1957, which with a population of seven million, the census has counted in determining the structural basis of population.
. The last census took place in areas of Iraq was in 1997, which showed that the number of Iraq's population of 25 million.
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