Gulf countries outperform global rates in basic services, education and health

Data issued by the statistical center of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries revealed that the GCC states achieve advanced social indicators that exceed global rates in vital areas, such as basic services, education and health, which reflects the priority granted to the family and the quality of life in the region.

According to the data, the percentage of families who obtain safe drinking water services and electricity is 100% compared to a global rate of 91%, and the percentage of primary schools for students from people of determination was 100%, which is twice the global rate of 50%, while health coverage reached 72%, exceeding the global average, 68%, despite the variation of rates in the GCC countries.

These numbers reflect the great interest that the GCC states attach to the framework of their joint work, as they devoted them a special goal in the population strategy of the countries of the Council, which is the eighth goal in the axis of social development represented in preserving the components of the family, and enhancing its role as the nucleus of society.

The path of achieving this goal includes supporting the family, strengthening its bonds, and providing a decent life for it with its various members, and protecting them from need through a number of mechanisms that include expanding the scope of social security networks to form all cases that need help, in order to ensure their living needs, with a periodic assessment of controls for aid and ensuring decent living for needy families, by securing job opportunities for their members and encouraging small and medium enterprises That the woman exercises from inside her home.