Statistics on Progress Made in Iraq Mon Jun 28

Statistics on Progress Made in Iraq --- Mon Jun 28, 6:49 PM ET 

By The Associated Press

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A look at progress in Iraq

 

_ Electricity production has reached 4,100 megawatts, short of the coalition's goal of 6,000 megawatts by June 30.

prewar from 300 megawatts to 4,400 megawatts.

 

_ Electricity is now spread evenly across the country. Baghdad, which used to be favored under Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime, now gets 8-12 hours of electricity a day Prewar  - 20 hours before the war.

 

_ The overall number of telephones in Iraq, including cell phones, is up nearly 46 percent since before the war. Cellular (news - web sites) phone usage has soared with more than 429,300 subscribers nationwide.

More than 201,000 subscribers have had their land telephone lines reinstated, but there are still only 784,200 land lines, compared to 833,000 before the war.

 

_ More than 2,200 schools and 240 hospitals have been "rehabilitated,"

 

 _ As of January 2004,  860 secondary school master trainers, and 31,772 secondary teachers and administrative staff, were trained in programs funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.

 

_ School supply kits have been distributed to 1.5 million secondary school students, 808,000 primary school students and 81,735 primary school teachers.

 

_ About 8.7 million new math and science textbooks have been distributed. The World Bank (news - web sites) has issued a grant for $40 million for new textbooks for 6 million primary and secondary students.

 

_ Twenty Iraqis have received Fulbright grants to study abroad, and six are women.

 

_ More than 77,000 public works jobs have been created through the National Employment Program.

 

_ Sixteen provincial councils have been established, along with 78 district councils, 192 city or sub-district councils, and 392 neighborhood councils.

 

_ Health-care spending in Iraq has increased some 30 times over prewar levels.

Between June 2003 and April 2004, more than 3 million children under five were vaccinated against diseases. A U.S. grant to the Iraqi Nursing Association will go toward training more nurses and buying uniforms, bed linens and nurses' kits.

 

_ The new Iraqi dinar has been stable, and its value has risen by 25 percent over last fall, when the conversion was under way.

 

Sources: Coalition Provisional Authority, U.S. Department of Defense (news - web sites), U.S. Agency for International Development.