{"id":39858,"date":"2019-06-24T08:23:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39858"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:23:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:23:07","slug":"us-cyberattacks-on-iranian-targets-not-successful-iran-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39858","title":{"rendered":"US cyberattacks on Iranian targets not successful: Iran minister"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nLONDON: More than half the young people in much of the Arab world would like to leave their home countries, a survey conducted by BBC Arabic has found.<\/p>\n

\nThat number has jumped by more than 10 percent for those aged 18-29 since 2016, according to the Big BBC News Arabic Survey 2018\/19, conducted with the Arab Barometer research group. The survey received responses from more than 25,000 people aged 18 and over in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Yemen, Jordan, Iraq, Sudan, and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

\nOne of the survey\u2019s most striking figures showed that 70 percent of young Moroccans were thinking about leaving their country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nAlmost half of those surveyed in Sudan, Jordan and Morocco \u2014 and a third of those in Iraq \u2014 are considering emigrating. Although Europe is the overwhelming choice for North Africans, the number of people in other countries in the region who want to go to Europe has fallen since previous surveys.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nThe Gulf is the number one choice for Egyptians, Yemenis, and Sudanese, whilst North America is top of the wish list for people in Jordan and Lebanon.<\/p>\n

\nParticipants in the survey \u201cseem to be turning away from Europe and towards North America and the Gulf, and that\u2019s perhaps because the Gulf has been\u00a0opening\u00a0its doors a little bit more in recent years,\u201d said Rosie Garthwaite, senior producer at BBC News Arabic.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nThe number of people risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean Sea and seek refuge in Europe surged in the last eight years \u2014 peaking in 2016. Many of those migrants were fleeing violence in Syria and Iraq, but there were also large numbers of Afghans, North Africans and people from sub-Saharan Africa making the journey.<\/p>\n

\nOverall, there has been an increase in the number of people who are considering emigration since 2013 in Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, and Egypt, the survey said. However, there has been a decrease in the number in Palestine, Algeria, Sudan, Yemen, and Lebanon. Rates in the latter have \u201cdeclined substantially over the past decade,\u201d the survey said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nOften the desire to leave is fueled by a decline in the economic situation in the region, the report stated: \u201cEconomic factors are the predominant reason for emigration followed by corruption, and men are more likely than women to consider emigrating, especially in Egypt.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nArab countries had the highest youth unemployment rates in the world in 2018, according to the International Labour Organization (ILO). Conflict and instability in Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, Algeria, Libya and Iraq has increased economic deterioration.<\/p>\n

\nThe ILO says that around 20 percent of people aged 15-24 in Morocco were unemployed in 2018, and according to the survey a significant minority of people there \u201cwant more rapid or sudden (political) change, particularly young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nIn Jordan and Lebanon, economies have been battered by the fallout from violence in neighboring Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n

\nJordan has taken in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees and has the second-highest share of refugees compared to population in the world.\u00a0At the same time, tax hikes introduced to meet International Monetary Fund (IMF) targets to reduce Jordan\u2019s debt burden triggered widespread protests in 2018.<\/p>\n

\nSince 2011, Lebanon has taken in 1.5 million Syrians and Palestine refugees from Syria, accounting for 30 percent of Lebanon’s population, the world\u2019s highest concentration per capita of refugees according to the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations department.<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya featured in the 10 most corrupt countries in the world according to the Corruption Perceptions Index 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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