{"id":210632,"date":"2026-07-17T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/210632\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T08:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:04:09","slug":"iraq-places-88th-in-global-economic-development-ranking-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/210632\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq places 88th in global economic development ranking – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n

Iraq ranked 88th out of 100 countries and 11th among Arab states in the 2026 US News & World Report Best Countries rankings for economic development, placing ahead of Algeria and Jordan.<\/p>\n

The report<\/a> estimated Iraq\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) at $666 billion, with a purchasing power parity (PPP) GDP per capita of $14,464.<\/p>\n

The United Arab Emirates led the Arab rankings, placing 31st worldwide with a GDP of $870.4 billion and a PPP GDP per capita of $79,229. Qatar followed in 43rd ($360.2 billion; PPP GDP per capita: $126,046), ahead of Saudi Arabia in 50th ($2.5 trillion; $71,375).<\/p>\n

Egypt came in 62nd ($2.2 trillion; $19,094), followed by Kuwait in 63rd ($256.8 billion; $52,444), Oman in 71st ($220.5 billion; $41,740), Tunisia in 73rd ($178.3 billion; $14,521), Bahrain in 79th ($106.3 billion; $66,941), Morocco in 81st ($402.8 billion; $10,415), and Lebanon in 83rd ($72.6 billion; $12,575).<\/p>\n

Algeria followed in 89th with a GDP of $824.9 billion and a PPP GDP per capita of $17,621, while Jordan placed 90th with corresponding figures of $125 billion and $10,821.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-17T07:29:51+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq ranked 88th out of 100 countries…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[152,2242,94,61342],"class_list":["post-210632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-breaking","tag-development","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-places-88th-in-global-economic-development-ranking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116934283386131832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}