poor population in Iraq

BAGHDAD, - Some 20-25 percent of Iraq’s estimated 27 million population lives below the country’s poverty line, a government survey.

• Though wide disparities were found between northern and southern provinces, the government said the results were better than expected.

• “Poverty is concentrated in the Iraqi rural areas more than in the urban areas in all provinces,” said the survey, which was conducted by the Iraqi Ministry of Planning.

• It found that the highest poverty rate was in the southern province of Muthana with 49 percent, followed by the central provinces of Babil with 41 percent and Salaheddin with 40 percent.

• The lowest poverty rates were in the three northern provinces that make up Iraq’s self-ruled Kurdistan Region: Dahouk, with 10 percent living below the poverty line, and Erbil and Sulaimaniyah with 3 percent each.

• The survey defines poverty as living on 76,896 Iraqi dinars (about $66) a month, or$2.2 a day. 

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