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by sweeneyrod 2115 days ago
> Their GDP per capita places them at #95 (below Iraq) - around $5,500 - they're a very impoverished low-income nation.

That's nominal not adjusted for cost of living. For the latter they're close to the world average, above Brazil and not far below Argentina. Possibly more relevantly, "middle-income" is defined by the World Bank (https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/90...), which in fact categorises Iran as "upper-middle-income".

Iraq isn't actually that poor, it's just terrible for mysterious other reasons.