The credit rating agency expects the growth of Iraq's economy (8%) in four years

Author: bian3 on: Monday 09/21/2015 15:04





BAGHDAD / WAP / signed and Moody's credit rating, to increase Iraq's oil production at a rate of 10% annually to reach about 5 million barrels a day by 2019, in conjunction with the non-oil growth from 2016 recovery onwards, and this will help to raise the GDP growth rate real to about 8% a year between 2016 and 2019.

She Moody's said in a statement, seen by news agency Baghdad International / WAP / that "the Iraqi economy suffers from a lack of diversification, where oil accounts for 50% of GDP, and nearly 100% of exports, as the public sector dominated the non-oil sector, and the form of manufacturing and construction only 10% of GDP in 2014 ".

In 2014, real GDP in Iraq fell by 2.1%, driven by a sharp contraction in the non-oil growth, while oil production has continued to grow by about 4.5%.

Iraq and damaged government revenue because of lower oil prices since mid-2014, where oil accounts for about 90% of total revenue.

Moody's expects that "Iraq's government revenues fall by 35% in 2015, compared with 2014, bringing the budget deficit to 18% of GDP."

Despite the growth of oil exports in Iraq, probably in 2016, the fiscal deficit will remain at about 15% of GDP, according to a Moody's statement.

According to Moody's, he said that "The financing for this deficit to raise the government's debt ratio to about 79% of GDP by the end of 2016."

Moody's expects that "the decline of government debt ratio in Iraq at a later time, to less than 70% of GDP in 2019, thanks to high oil prices and production, however, government revenues will continue to be vulnerable to oil price fluctuations."

According to statistical review issued by BBC Worldwide has the energy situation in the world in 2015, Iraq's proven oil reserves stood at 150 billion barrels in 2014, occupies the fifth place in the world, accounting for 8.8% of the world's proven reserves.

Moody's said, it was "temporarily awarded rated bonds issued by government decided in dollars (Caa1), which means a high degree of risk, and look stable outlook".

Iraq plans to issue international bonds by about $ 6 billion, for the first time in 9 years, to finance the budget deficit, due to falling oil prices and the war against al-Daash.


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