Kurdistan population reaches 4.9 million

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: The head of the Kurdistan Region Census Department announced today that the total inhabitants of Kurdistan has reached 4.9  million, out of a total population of roughly 31 million in Iraq.  Serwan Muhyiddin told IraqiNews.com that this figure was reached according to statistics and housing numbering made in 2009 in all over Iraq.  The results of the statistics was issued today that reached 31,664,000 inhabitants in all over Iraq, including 4.9 inhabitants in Kurdistan.  A special ceremony was made here today in cooperation with UNFPA, senior advisor to the Kurdish ministry of planning called the government to exert more efforts to better health, scientific, social and educational levels in order to minimize death averages and poverty problems, in addition to increasing work opportunities. RM (TS)/SR 727