7 million Iraqis below poverty line
By Shaymaa Adel | 11.04.2010 15:43 | Globalisation | Iraq | Social Struggles | World
Millions of Iraqis exist below the poverty line in a country which floats on oil and earned more than $60 billion from oil sales last year, said Mahdi Muhsen, the director of the Central Organization for Statistics and Information Technology.
Muhsen said one fourth of Iraq’s nearly 30 million people live below the poverty line and that unemployment rates could hit 30% in some provinces.Muhsen made the remarks as his organization gears toward national census scheduled for November 24 this year.
The poverty line for a single adult is 77,000 dinars per month, that is approximately $60. This means that at least 7 million Iraqis will have to make ends meet on two U.S. dollars a day.Muhsen revealed more alarming figures regarding abject poverty."Half the population of Iraq live in abject poverty," he said.He said some impoverished provinces, like Muthanna in the south, suffered more than others.
By Shaymaa Adel
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a real perspective
11.04.2010 17:20
$60 billion for 30,000,000 people = $200 each.
Not that much really.
Its sounds a lot ($60 billion), but for 30million people it isn't necessarily that much.
You've got to take into account the GDP. Per individual in 2009, it was $3,600.
To put into perspective, the UK (in the height of recession) was near $44,000
Iraq is a very poor country on the scale of things.
Tarman
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12.04.2010 00:25
The people who pay taxes in the America and Britain are responsible for these crimes, because without those unnaccountable moneys they could not have launched unprovoked attacks on innocent people to steal their natural resources.
Time to get rid of these corrupt, centralised government occupied by liars, thieves and warmongers... time to take back the land and stop working in their factories for slave wages.
No Freedom... No Peace!
Klamber