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Planning: A family whose monthly income is 575,000 dinars is not considered poor SAT, 02-01-2021, PM 6:33 KARRAR AL-ASADI 688 http://non14.net/public/images/large/8-1609601617.jpg On Saturday, the Ministry of Planning determined the level of the poverty line in Iraq, indicating that the family whose income is more than 575 thousand dinars per month is at the subsistence level and not poverty. "The ministry has set the level of the poverty line in Iraq, at 115 thousand dinars per person per month," the ministry’s spokesman, Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi, said in a press statement . Al-Hindawi added, "What is below that is poverty," explaining that "115 thousand dinars per person per month is the subsistence limit." He continued, "A family whose income exceeds 575 thousand dinars is at the level of subsistence and not poverty," stressing that "poverty is below that," according to the NRT. Earlier, Al-Hindawi said that the poverty rate in Iraq amounted to about 30% during the year 2020, indicating that more than 12 million Iraqis are below the poverty line . Al-Hindawi stated in press statements on (December 30, 2020), that poverty rates in Iraq increased during the year 2020 due to the Corona pandemic and its effects, which caused a major economic downturn witnessed by Iraq and other countries of the world, indicating that "this contraction caused the suspension of many activities. Economic and business, especially in the private sector. " He stressed that the Iraqis who have fallen under the poverty line due to this crisis and its accompanying repercussions reached two million and 700 thousand Iraqis who entered the poverty line, in addition to the number of former Iraqis below the poverty line, which is 9 million and 900 thousand . Al-Hindawi pointed out that these indicators were reached through a study conducted by the Ministry of Planning in cooperation with the World Bank and UNICEF last July, adding that "after life gradually returned to normal and many businesses resumed their activities, the initial indicators say that these percentages have decreased." Regarding poverty rates in the governorates, the ministry's spokesman indicated that poverty levels at the provincial level rise in the southern regions by 30-35%, in the central governorates close to 20%, in Baghdad it reaches about 13%, and in the Kurdistan Region it reaches about 12 % . According to a report by the United Nations UNICEF, more than 40% of Iraqi children are below the poverty line, and they are forced to do hard and exhausting work at an early age, and most of them drop out of school .
