Minister of Planning, Mohammed Ali Tamim, confirmed today, Monday, that the numbering and enumeration operations for the general population census will begin at the end of this month.
The ministry stated in a statement received by Al-Rasheed, that “Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Planning, Mohammed Ali Tamim, chaired today an expanded meeting of governors, their deputies and representatives of local governments, during which the governorates’ preparations for conducting the general population and housing census scheduled to be implemented on 11/20/2024 were discussed.”
She added that “during the meeting, the project plan within the regional development program was discussed, as well as the rates of completion and difficulties facing the implementation of these projects, and the measures taken regarding the release of disbursements to the governorates,” indicating that “the meeting was attended by the governors of Baghdad, Basra, Anbar, Najaf and Diwaniyah, while the deputy governors of the remaining governorates, the undersecretaries of the Ministry of Planning, the head of the Statistics Authority, the national census advisor, and a number of general managers in the ministry attended.”
During the meeting, Tamim praised, according to the statement, “the great tasks and efforts made by the governors and local governments to advance the development and service reality in the governorates,” noting “the importance of their role in conducting and making the general population census a success.”
He called for “providing and completing all requirements for the success of the census project, due to its great developmental importance, because the success of the census will contribute to achieving justice in the distribution of wealth between the governorates, by indicating the development gaps, and removing injustice from them by stating the accurate and real numbers of the population of each governorate.”
He stressed that “the population census project is a national project that requires everyone’s participation in its success, at the level of ministries, governorates and citizens,” stressing “the importance of the media’s role in defining this importance, and clarifying the role of researchers and enumerators who will implement the census electronically, whose number will reach more than (130) thousand researchers and enumerators from teaching staff, employees and graduates. The first batch of them is now being trained, who will undertake the numbering and enumeration operations that will start throughout Iraq on 7/31/2024, and will continue for two months, and then the other batches will be trained to conduct the general population census.”
He pointed out that “the initial results of the census will appear within 48 hours, while the detailed data will appear within a few weeks.”
For their part, the governors and representatives of local governments expressed their “full readiness to provide all requirements for the census project according to their available capabilities,” stressing “the importance of the success of this project, as it will provide important data about the reality of each governorate, and thus develop development plans to change the reality for the better, in addition to ensuring the governorates’ rights from the budget according to the accurate and real population number.”
