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Posted on 10/31/2019 10:36:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Iraq’s GDP per capita in 1990 was $11000 (half of US GDP).
The same figure for 1995 was $173 (third of Nigeria’s GDP).
Maybe, but most of the people lived in slums - only the Republican Guards officers and other well connected types plus Saddam and his family siphoned off most of that money.
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