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Iraq /
Health & Education
HEALTH
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Life expectancy: 69.6 years. Female 71.0, male 68.3
Population growth: 2,8% (2002 estimate)
Infant mortality rate: 5,7% (2002 estimate)
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EDUCATION
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Literacy rate: 55%
Universities: 8
Students: 0.8%
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One of the areas where the international embargo has had strongest effect is on the health services, as medication, and equipment both are difficult to obtain, and also difficult to find funds for.
The destruction of the infrastructure in 1991, has also had strong effects on the public health; food supplies are drastically down, sanitary conditions are often no longer functioning, water quality is seldom acceptable in towns and the capacity to stop the spreading of diseases is almost null.
A survey from April 1997 showed that 27% Iraqi children of 5 years of age or younger suffered from chronic malnutrition.
The quality of Iraq's educational system was drastically worsened even before the international embargo from 1990, and the primary enrollment had gone down to 85% in 1988, from 100% in 1978.
Iraq has 8 universities, the oldest established in 1957.
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By: Tore Kjeilen
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