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Iraq: WBL: Supportive Framework, Childcare, Score

25ordinal scale (0-100) · 2025

The Childcare topic supportive frameworks score measures policies and practices that support parents in making informed decisions about childcare, including access to publicly available registries of childcare providers, financial support for both parents and nonstate childcare providers, and monitoring of highquality services through publicly available regular quality reports. It is calculated as the unweighted average of the indicator scores in the topic and rescaled to a 0–100 scale, where 0 represents the lowest possible score and 100 the highest possible score. For details on underlying questions and scoring assumptions, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf). Annual figures for Iraq from 2025 to 2025.