The Impact of Population Growth on Some Economic Indicators in Iraq for A Period of 2003-2017

Abstract

There is certainly a relationship between population growth and economic development. Population and economic growth, since 2003 and before the Iraqi state has pursued different development paths with the aim of achieving high rates of economic growth, but those tracks proved to be unsustainable in the medium or long term, especially since they relied on the only economic resource, oil, which Led to the rise in population growth rates in an explosive manner, especially the increase in the incomes of individuals, health care and free education, which generated armies of unemployment and laziness after the dominance of the public sector in all economic activities, and the public sector was the engine of economic growth which Provides employment opportunities and provides all social services, use descriptive research and economic suppositify approach in the formation of models based on the Eviews 10 program in the analyzer, in light of the data on population growth and economic variables and the reliance on the Diki Fuller tests The analysis was based on the time-long data represented by the research sample, which included population, unemployment, national income size and GDP, and the addition of some Other variables and the measurement of the relationship between them and as a result of the analysis of standard models of research, it appeared that there is a strong effect by population growth on GDP and the existence of a relationship between them through regression analysis, where the research included a number of recommendations, the most important of which is interest in studies and research Related to population estimates and the identification of a clear relationship between population policy and economic policy and the development of plans to remove the negative effects of population growth and increase the positive effects of it as well as increase gdp spending to keep up with developments in population growth according to specialized sectors.