Iraqi government pays the salaries of 4 million employees, says Abadi

(IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, announced on Thursday, that the number of employees who earn salaries from the state is more than four million people, which is nearly 20 percent of the country’s workforce by an estimated population of 36 million people.

Abadi said, “We have a country with more than 4 million employees”, in a speech during a workshop on economic reform, broadcasted on television channels.

According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi, the ministry’s estimate of the number of Iraq’s population currently is 36 million people.