Imposing a curfew in all Iraqi governorates on November 20 and 21
Imposing a curfew in all Iraqi governorates on November 20 and 21
2024-09-01 04:36
This came during the chairmanship of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani of the third meeting of the Supreme Population Council, during which the preparations underway to conduct the general population and housing census next November were discussed and followed up.
The meeting approved a set of decisions that would facilitate the preparation and training process for conducting the census, as follows: Imposing a curfew in all Iraqi governorates on November 20 and 21, to conduct the population census.
It was also decided to address the requirements with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq regarding training statistical personnel for the numbering and enumeration process.
Among the decisions, the Ministries of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research will support the statistical process by preparing classrooms for training, as well as youth centers through the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
The Council stressed in its decisions the need to expedite the transfer of financial requirements and allocations to finance the census project.
The statement also referred to hosting the head of the General Authority for Statistics and Geographic Information Systems in the meeting of the Supreme Committee for Coordination between the Governorates.
The meeting approved the study of amending the Compulsory Education Law No. 118 of 1976, as well as supporting the executive body for literacy in the governorates, and providing it with the required financial allocation.
It was also decided to adopt the report on the overall procedures and indicators achieved by the sectoral ministries concerned with implementing the recommendations issued by international conferences and national commitments on population issues, issued by the Statistics and Geographic Information Systems Authority in the Ministry of Planning, provided that the report includes appendices that include the most important statistical indicators resulting from the general population census, the social and economic survey of families in Iraq, and the multiple-indicator survey.
Today, Sunday, September 1, the Ministry of Planning began the census and numbering operations, which will continue for two months, in preparation for implementing the general population and housing census, scheduled for November 20, 2024.
The head of the Statistics and Geographic Information Systems Authority at the Ministry of Planning, Diaa Awad Kazim, called in a press conference held yesterday for the Council of Ministers to impose a curfew on the day of the census in order to complete household data.
Last May, the Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning announced commitment to the timelines of the action plan, and the population census will be implemented on its scheduled date of November 20, 2024.
At the end of last May, the Ministry of Planning conducted a pilot census in 86 localities distributed among 18 governorates, 46 in rural areas and 40 in urban areas.
Iraq is preparing to conduct a general population census on October 20 of this year.
According to estimates prepared by the Ministry of Planning, the population of Iraq in 2023 is 43 million people, while the capital, Baghdad, has the largest population according to population projections based on annual estimates.
The Ministry of Planning expects Iraq’s population to reach 48 million by 2028.
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