التوزيع الجغرافي لسكان العشوائيات في محافظة النجف

الملخص EN

Highlighting the importance of the study in the fact that it dealt with the geographical distribution of the slum population in the governorate of Najaf so the interest in studying the population of slum areas and their geographical distribution and the resulting results have a significant impact on the social and economic development programs and change the distribution of the population is reflected on the policies Population and general development trends, the study revealed the high percentage distribution of slum dwellers in the governorate, which reached the highest rate in the Najaf Judicial Centre and the centre of Kufa in and in percentages ( , - , ) Respectively, in , the Najaf district was ranked first with a ratio of ( , ) While the network area received the lowest percentage of the population for the years and and reached ( - ) This is due to the lack of water resources, as it is a desert region with a large area, and the study revealed that there is a disparity in the relative distribution of slum dwellers for and the high proportion of the urban population to the rural population as a result of the availability of employment and the migration of the rural population to urban centres as well On the natural increase of the urban population and the general density of slum dwellers ( .

inhabitants/km ), according to the results of the field study of .

This is due to an increase in the population between high birth and migration.