Classification of Some Indicators of Sustainable Development in Iraq

Abstract

The Iraqi economy suffered from abnormal conditions that lasted for more than three decades starting from the Iran-Iraq war in the early eighties of the last century and then the first Gulf War in 1991 and the economic blockade that followed and continued until the second Gulf War in 2003 which contributed to the fall of the political system in Iraq. All these factors and others led to a significant deterioration in the indicators of sustainable development in Iraq, especially in the environmental conditions and the decline of renewable water sources, the rapid depletion of resources and the deterioration of the quality of drinking water and high rates of desertification, and the proliferation of informal housing units and a significant reduction in Public spending on health and education has not yet begun, and after 2003 some kind of improvement has started on these indicators, although they are still far from their levels in neighboring countries. Indicators by Governorates One of the results reached is that the governorates of the fourth group suffer from weak public finances as well as the governorates of the third group suffer from weak economic performance and that the governorates of the second group suffer from weak Tourist disease while the first group governorates suffer from weak work.