The volume of financial movements through electronic payment devices increased during the past year to 9 trillion and 800 billion Iraqi dinars, according to the Information Technology and Payments Department of the Central Bank of Iraq.
The Director General of the Department, Adnan Asaad, said in an interview with Al-Sabah, followed by “Economy News”, that this rise is only evidence of the tendency of citizens and employees to use electronic payment, after it was 289 billion dinars in 2019.
He added that “the electronic levection project also rose to 108 billion and 7 million dinars during the past year, through one million and 46 thousand movements, after it was 3 billion and 35 million dinars during 2021.”
“The number of bank cards during the past year reached 18 million and 500 thousand cards, after it was 10 million and 500 thousand cards in 2019, while statistics showed the use of 558 government departments of electronic payment devices during the past year after it was only 12 departments in 2019.”
He added that “the total government e-collection since the activation of the decision of the Council of Ministers to publish electronic payment tools through 586 thousand and 868 movements amounted to 418 billion and 371 million dinars, while the total government e-collection last year from points of sale reached 287 thousand and 543 movements 408 billion and 277 million dinars, and stressed that “10 billion and 9 million dinars is the total collection from gas stations through 299 thousand and 325 movements.”
He added that “the value of using electronic payment last year in Iraqi currency through 15 million and 838 thousand movements amounted to 9 trillion, 661 billion and 503 million dinars, while the value of using electronic payment last year in the currency of dollars through 32 thousand and 842 movements of 11 million and 936 thousand dollars.”
