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Catastrophic repercussions of the Corona outbreak in Iraq
The outbreak of the Corona virus in Iraq exacerbated the suffering of the country, which has suffered the scourge of poverty and war for years, as Corona has multiplied crises for Iraqis in unprecedented ways.
The Iraqi prime minister’s adviser for financial affairs explained that the poverty rate in the country reaches 30 percent of the total population.
The Iraqi News Agency quoted, Mazhar Muhammad Saleh, that the poverty rate rose to 30 percent among the Iraqi people, indicating that among those poor, “displaced and unemployed elderly, in addition to there are more than two million families, joined as a result of the Corona pandemic. That swept the world. “
This percentage indicates a very large increase in the number of poor people. According to official data, the poverty rate in Iraq did not exceed 15 percent in 2013, and reached 22 percent the following year.
The 2018 poverty survey showed that the Muthanna governorate, which is the second largest in the country, is the first with the highest poverty rate of 52 percent, followed by Diwaniyah with 48 percent, Maysan with 45 percent and Dhi Qar with 44 percent.
The poverty rate in Nineveh governorate was 37.7 percent, followed by Diyala at 22.5 percent, Wasit at 19 percent, Salah al-Din at 18 percent, Anbar at 17 percent, Basra del 16 percent, Najaf 12.5 percent, Karbala 12 percent, Babylon 11 percent. Percent.
The lowest poverty rate was recorded in the capital, Baghdad, with 10 percent, followed by Dohuk, with 8.5 percent, Kirkuk, with 7.6 percent, and Erbil, with 6.7 percent.
Since last October, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have demonstrated to demand a change in the political system and the departure of the ruling class accused of corruption, in a country plagued by political and security crises for decades.
Following those demonstrations, then-Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced the resignation of his government at the end of November 2019, before Mustafa Al-Kazemi managed to form a new government after difficult work that lasted many months.
Iraq is considered one of the countries rich in oil, wealth, minerals and agriculture. However, the failure of successive governments has plunged the country into a cycle of political crises and those that followed of economic disasters that left their harsh effects on the population, according to the opinions of numerous experts and observers.
