First - Iran had expensive war between 1980 and 1988. Since 1989 income grew significantly. From 1/6 of Saudi's to 1/2 of Saudi Arabia income per person.
In the last 30 years natural gas production have risen more than 10 times and is larger than in Qatar, but Iran is big country and they use all their gas internally.
Iran doesn't have as much crude as Saudi Arabia and production is already declining.
While Iranian economy have to make transition (oil exports will end in the next 10-14 years) and giving away $100b a year in gasoline subsidies was stupid there are notable successes:
100% elementary school enrolment in the last 15 years,
100% vaccination enrolment in the last15 years,
gender equality in literacy,
significant decrease in child mortality,
decrease in fertility rate from 7 to 1.8,
13 years longer live expectancy,
Well, actually economical perspectives for Iran are even worse than I think. It has large percentage of workers in agriculture and poor achievements in maths...
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