KHEJALAT!!!!!!!!!! (SHAME)
Rank Country GDP (PPP)
$ per capita
1 Luxembourg $69,800
2 Norway $42,364
3 United States $41,399
4 Ireland $40,610
5 Iceland $35,115
6 Denmark $34,740
7 Canada $34,273
8 Hong Kong $33,479
9 Austria $33,432
10 Switzerland $32,571
11 Qatar $31,397
12 Belgium $31,244
13 Finland $31,208
14 Australia $30,897
15 Netherlands 30,862
16 Japan 30,615
17 Germany 30,579
18 United Kingdom 30,436
19 Sweden 29,926
20 France 29,187
21 Italy 28,534
22 Singapore 28,368
23 United Arab Emirates 27,957
24 Republic of China (Taiwan) 27,721
25 Spain 26,320
26 Brunei 24,948
27 New Zealand 24,797
28 Israel 23,474
29 Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands 22,750
30 Greece 22,392
31 Slovenia 21,808
32 Bahrain 21,565
33 Cyprus 21,177
34 South Korea 20,590
35 The Bahamas 20,076
36 Malta 19,739
37 Portugal 19,335
38 Czech Republic 18,341
39 Barbados 17,610
40 Oman 16,862
41 Hungary 16,823
42 Equatorial Guinea 16,507
43 Estonia 16,414
44 Kuwait 16,301
45 Slovakia 16,041
46 Saudi Arabia 15,229
47 Saint Kitts and Nevis 14,649
48 Trinidad and Tobago 14,258
49 Lithuania 14,158
50 Argentina 14,109
51 Poland 12,994
52 Mauritius 12,895
53 Latvia 12,666
54 Croatia 12,324
55 South Africa 12,161
56 Seychelles 12,059
57 Chile 11,937
58 Libya 11,624
59 Antigua and Barbuda 11,523
60 Botswana 11,410
61 Malaysia 11,201
62 Russia 11,041
63 Uruguay 10,720
64 Costa Rica 10,434
65 Mexico 10,186
66 Bulgaria 9,223
67 Romania 8,785
68 Brazil 8,561
69 Thailand 8,368
70 Kazakhstan 8,318
71 Tunisia 8,255
72 Grenada 8,198
73 Turkmenistan 8,098
74 Iran 7,980
75 Turkey 7,950
76 Tonga 7,935
77 Belize 7,832
78 Republic of Macedonia 7,748
79 Belarus 7,711
80 Maldives 7,675
81 Dominican Republic 7,627
82 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 7,493
83 Namibia 7,478
84 Colombia 7,326
85 Panama 7,283
86 Ukraine 7,213
87 People's Republic of China 7,198
88 Algeria 7,189
89 Gabon 7,055
90 Lebanon 6,681
91 Dominica 6,520
ABF, for the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran
8 comments:
Shame on all people who have elected the islamic governments.
Shows something that they merely just beat Lebanon by roughly 1000 dollars despite having vast ammounts of oil and not having had a civil war for the last twenty years.
Say is that before or *after* taxes? Because the PPP measure doesn't take that into consideration. My guess is this list looks a bit different if the average tax per capita is applied to the figures given...
As far as I know,there are no income taxes in Iran...this is actually by design. This way they don't have to listen to their constituents. I think this is true of most MR countries. There are, however, property and business taxes.
Also the mullahs learned from Shah's middle-class building experience--which later turned against him-- not to encourage the fomration of midle class. 80% of the economy is in the hands of the state. As a result, there is no solid cadre of business leaders to pressure the government.
Despite its massive oil reserves, the country has very little capacity to produce substances like gasoline and jet fuel.They estimate that Iran imorts in the area of about $10 billion a year, a figure that may represent upt to a third of all imports.
More...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/23/business/sanction.php
Serendip - That is as I suspected in the keptocratic world of natural resources based economies: bribe the population while the regime puts the majority of the money to its own uses. 'Socialist' regimes that depend upon natural resources and that put money into healthcare and nothing into industry, soon find their economy and healthcare system is whipped by the ups and downs of the market system. KSA is finding that even though the price of oil is high, its cost for maintenance and actual production capability is reducing the money used for direct bribery of its people. Thus, social tensions are slowly rising there. Iran via subsidies and lack of taxation and lack of real industry of any sort is aiming at 'big gain' weapons technology that has no industrial basis for sustainment. That is extremely deadly, both in the production of same for the regime's use and the use of those goods for barter or auction to gain income.
When I wrote a note to Canada about having both diamonds and oil exports, the warning of letting the Federal Government get its hands on the cash flow was and is a real one. Canada can plough money back into the Nation on an industrial basis and head towards long-term self-sustainment via a robust natural resources exporting segment and *not* become a third world State suckling at the profits of such exports while the Nation goes to ruin. Luckily, their Provincial set-up puts natural resources under Provincial control, and the Central Western Provinces are calling into question the transfer payment system to the Eastern Provinces. A strange Nation that goes from France in Quebec to the American Old West in the Center to the Pacific coast resembling something closer to the Left coast of the US in outlook. It is, of course, the central portion that now has jobs going begging, high pay, booming economy and the building of industry... would that other resource rich Nations look to them for 'how to do it'...
I am not surprised at goods requiring good refining are being imported into Iran, at this point. Actually, very little about the entire economic outlook, or non-outlook, from the regime there surprises me. Their support for Syria is very worrying as Syria just has 'enough to limp by on' perennially in the way of industry, with or without outside support. They still have to shut off power to parts of the Nation on a regular basis, which we don't hear about as it is the standard course of affairs there as their dam projects never did get properly scoped and scaled and built. Iran is now a house of cards with the underpinnings of the Nation being slowly taken out, card by card. In that metastable structure, the smallest thing could tip it into chaos at any part of the entire structure. Like the Sarajevo Assassination of Arch-Duke Ferdinand... a truly minor event that cascaded outwards with deadly and long-lasting consequences.
That is the entire Middle East today.
The center of that *must* be held in a relatively stable form with future outlook for itself that does *not* head back into tyranny. Because if that center does not hold, the rest of the area comes crashing down without respect to borders. If held then Iran can be rescued if needs be... it may shake up a bit due to ethnic differences, but ensuring the people and culture survive is the goal. If the center is not held then the death toll for years if not decades will be visited not only in the Middle East but globally...
That bodes ill for Free People, everywhere.
I find it interesting that tiny Israel has its GDP exceeded by only two Arab/Muslim countries, and both are oil-rich potentates that don't actually produce anything except oil...
Michael, Israel is not busy preaching martrydom and homicidal bombings of its youth around the world.
Which is the point I didn't actually say, Serendip.
Israel is busy producing life-saving drugs (Teva is the world's largest pharmaceutical company, and the world's largest producer of low-cost generics), or valuable high tech devices (cell phones were invented here, and Intel and Motorola have their largest R&D facilities in Israel).
There must be something right about Israel... Last summer, at the height of the Lebanon War, almost 2000 people immigrated here from America and France.
Natural resources don't guarantee wealth; human resources do.
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