FEATURES Blind Ambition: Factoids

Government Executive July 1, 2004

Signs of Progress

  • As of late May, more than 1.2 million Iraqis had telephone service - more than 45 percent above prewar levels.
  • The state-owned Internet company has more than 43,000 subscribers in Baghdad, with more than 11,000 new subscribers added each week. Prewar internet access was very limited.
  • The Ministry of Health has immunized 5 million children against measles, mumps and rubella.

Worrisome Trends

  • Unemployment is nearly 30 percent, while underemployment is higher than 20 percent.
  • Power production in central Iraq remains well below prewar production levels.
  • The majority of Iraqi police on duty are untrained.

Source: Defense Department

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