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What is the truth of what was mentioned by the former MP Haitham al-Jubouri that 125% of Iraqis receive salaries from the state?
The MP and head of the Finance Committee in the previous parliamentary term, Haitham Al-Jubouri, mentioned in an interview with him on Al-Rasheed TV channel a statement in which he spoke about the numbers of those who receive salaries from the state and said the following: “9 million people receive salaries from the state at different titles, and the number can reach 10 million, which means, 25% of the Iraqi people, and if we take the average that the Iraqi family consists of 5 people, this means that 125% of the Iraqis receive more fixed salaries than the people themselves."
The clarification:
How former MP Haitham Al-Jubouri calculates the percentage of people who receive salaries is incorrect.
He assumed that the family consisted of 5 members and previously mentioned that the number of those receiving salaries is 9 million and may reach 10 million, or 25% of the population of Iraq, which is approximately 40 million. Accordingly, the percentage of those who receive salaries remains 25% of the people, not 125%, as Al-Jubouri mentioned.
As the ratio of 125% means that the only family member who receives a salary from the state has become the representative of the entire family and another additional member, ignoring the other four members who do not receive a salary from the state.
In number
Ten million people relative to Iraq's population of nearly 40 million, representing 25%.
5*25%=125%
In other words, when al-Jubouri mentioned that 125% of the population receives salaries, he added to his calculation that all the residents of Iraq receive a salary. He increased another additional quarter of the total population, meaning that the population of Iraq became 50 million people.
This is a misrepresentation of the percentage of people receiving state salaries.
Even if we assume that all Iraqis receive a salary from the state, this means that the percentage becomes 100%.
Noting that the Iraqi Ministry of Planning had announced its estimates of the population in Iraq during 2021, as the ministry revealed in a statement published on its official website on January 3, 2022, estimates of the population of Iraq for the year 2021 amounted to (41,190,658) million people, with (20,810,479) million males, constituting 51% of the total population, while the number of females was estimated at (20,380,179) million, they constitute (49%) of the total population.
What do you know about Haitham al-Jubouri?
A former parliament member from the province of Babil in the Iraqi parliament, he held the position of Chairman of the Finance Committee in the same council for its fourth term, head of the "Coalition of Competencies for Change," and Secretary-General of "The Competencies and the Masses Gathering" and previously worked as a professor in the Department of Mechanics at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Babylon.
