Using Population Projection Tool to Represent the Future of the Population of Anbar Province in 2030 in GIS Program
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At a time when the world is witnessing tremendous developments in digital registration systems and geographic information systems and their applications in all their directions to benefit from them in saving time, effort and cost in various scientific and research fields, despite the great development witnessed by geographic information systems in drawing and producing maps of representation and distribution of the population, but it needs other tools through which many applications can be supported, especially the population projection, which is one of the important and basic tools in knowing the number of population. This in turn leads to securing the necessary needs of the population, especially housing, education and job opportunities, in the sense of developing sustainable development plans that secure a decent life for the lives of the population. In order to develop sound and correct development plans, the research aims to represent the population of Anbar province for the year 2030 according to advanced population projections within the spatial analysis tools in GIS programs in order to avoid errors in the traditional means used in entering data and statistical methods that require great effort and time, especially if the population data is huge, as well as the methods of advanced population representation in the systems programs, the year 2010 was adopted for the previous population and the year 2020 for the next population census due to the accuracy of the data of this period, as well as the use of the ARC GIS 10.7.1 program for all stages of research from the stage of introducing the advanced tool for population projection, and the process of entering population data for Anbar province to the stage of producing tables and maps.
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