Baghdad : The Iraqi Ministry of Planning said on Monday that the number of widows and divorced women across the country totaled 1,938,000, according to the results of a survey carried out by the ministry during 2016.
Ministry’s spokesman Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi said in a statement that “the number of divorced women amounted to 122,438, of whom 105,000 aged between 14 and 49 years, while the total number of divorced women aged 50 years and above, reached 17,432.”
“The number of widows reached 5,878,455, of whom 203,000 aged between 14 and 49 years, and 675,198 women aged 50 years and above,” he added.—AB/IINA