The poverty in Iraq between the reality and the poor planning

Abstract EN

Iraq, like many of developing and the Arab countries, is suffering imbalance in the geographical distribution of the population the dominance of agglomeration in one place, that is, in the capital and its environs, the emergence of phenomena concentration in the major cities and urban sagging and the growth of slum on the outskirts of cities and their surroundings.

This reflects in the deterioration of the environment and the low level of services and management of development which, in other words, the imbalance in the distribution of the fruits of development among the population geographically which revealed statistical indicators about deprivation in Iraq.

The statistics also indicate the presence of large variations between the governorates in fertility rates and infant mortality rates that clearly reflect the variation in the level of health services and the economic infrastructure as well as the lack of consistency with the needs of the population.

These data indicate the need for population policy attention to the Iraqi government in the future to know the trends of urbanization and rapid urbanization and their potential impact and addressed them through the development plans and programs.