Iraq

Iraq; The unemployment rate has exceeded 35 percent

Although the Iraqi Planning Ministry expects the unemployment rate to fall compared to the past three years due to the employment of higher education graduates, but observers and economists believe that without opening new factories and restarting factories With the disabled unemployed for two decades, it is difficult to reduce the unemployment rate in the country become.

"The poverty rate will reach 16.5 percent in 2021, including women's unemployment," Planning Ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra Hindwi said 8% and 14% for men,” he said. “The unemployment rate can be reduced through new factories "Therefore, the unemployment rate will be clear in the general census.

"About 80 percent of the budget is spent on salaries. The government cannot find any way to solve the labor crisis because the country's economy is controlled by the armed forces," Ansari said ""

Meanwhile, economist Nabil Marsoumi said: "Unemployment is increasing and not decreasing, because it increases by one million people annually, that is, about half a million individuals enter the labor market, which means that there is a need to create a working environment "The unemployment rate among the youth has exceeded 35 percent. Iraq needs to diversify its economy to create jobs for the youth."