Mature sweeps the Arab countries. The Gulf State tops the list with 1.5 million girls

The phenomenon of delays in marriage, or "celibacy", has become a nightmare that haunts the young men and women of the Arab world and has been exacerbated by the crises and pressures of life and society.

According to the Turkish "Anatolia" agency in a report according to which the Arab communities suffer from the problem of paternity significantly, because it has increased over the recent period due to several factors.

Saudi Arabia:

A report issued by the Okaz newspaper on the results of a study revealed by statistics released by the Ministry of Planning in 2010 on the significant increase in the percentage of singles in Saudi Arabia.

The results of the study indicate that 18,000 cases of divorce occurred in previous years, compared with 60,000 marriage contracts, indicating that the marriage failure rate can reach 30%.

The study also revealed that the number of girls in the kingdom is expected to rise from one and a half million girls to around four million girls in the next five years.

Egypt:

According to the report of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics in Egypt for the year 2017, the percentage of celibacy in Egypt exceeded 13.5 million people over 30, of whom 2.5 million young men and 11 million girls.

The figures indicated that the higher the age after 40 years, the lower the prevalence of "celibacy", which means that the 40 to 44 age group was the highest of the number of single people compared with the following age groups, with 141,684,000 cases, the age group ranges from 45 to 49 years old to 83,803,000 cases, while in the age group 50-54 years old , the number of singles 67,224,000 men and the number of single persons of the same age group 53,961,000 cases.

A group of young people recently launched a media crackdown campaign called "Khalia Taans" to boycott marriage because of the high costs of marriage, dowry and irrational demands on some families. In response to the campaign, which provoked the anger of the opposite sex, several girls threw alongside your mother, "and" the cell of the creature ".

Iraq:

Recent statistics from women's organizations have shown that the rate of celibacy in Iraq has increased by almost 70%.

According to a report by Al Arabiya, the unemployment rate of young Iraqis of marrying age has reached unprecedented levels, which encourages them to prefer working women to contribute to the expenses.

According to the United Nations representative for women in Iraq, Francis Kay, the reality of Iraqi women in economic terms faces a big problem. According to ILO statistics, only 14 per cent of Iraqi women work outside the home, the lowest proportion in the world, which means that Iraqi women are not independent because they do not have their own income.

"The social reality of Iraqi women remains difficult," she said. "According to their husbands, 60% of women in this country have been abused by their husbands." This is one of the reasons for divorce and reluctance to get married.

Syria "

According to reports published by the Syrian media, confirmed by Damascus chief judge Mahmoud al-Marawi, the percentage of single people in Syria reached 70%, because of the war, which lasted seven years.

After the reasons for adulthood and the reasons for not getting married were due to the burden of young people such as immigration, high dowries, the high cost of marriages and family responsibility, the crisis and the war in Syria aggravated the situation.

The number of unemployed young people rose to 3 million young Syrians in the first quarter of 2013, a figure that is expected to increase: all these young people are unable to achieve their ambition to marry, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of young people who have emigrated without talk about those who have died and have been permanently disabled.