[wideawake]

Iran is more than twice the size of Texas, has a larger population than the UK or Germany or France or Italy, and has a GDP per capita higher than the Soviet Union's ever was.

Iran has more people and more wealth than Germany had in 1939.

[redlegplanner]

14 Germany 82,210,000 December 31, 2007
15 Ethiopia 77,127,000 July 2007
16 Egypt 75,498,000
17 Iran 71,208,000
18 Turkey 70,586,256 December 31, 2007
19 France 64,473,140 January 1, 2008
20 Thailand 63,038,247 December 31, 2007
21 Dem. Rep. of Congo 62,636,000
22 United Kingdom 60,587,300

Any statisticians out there capable of norming this data for working age population? I.E. I bet an adult beverage tha tthe percentage of miltary age males is much higher in Iran than in the Europistan countries.

[nikos1121]

You know what the really sad thing is, and what some politician SHOULD SAY IS? Is that Iran once was a great country. It’s military was formidable, it loaned money to the UK. It had educated professionals, artists and great thinkers who live abroad now, many here as MDs and scientists. It’s “tiny” now only in comparison to what it once was.