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That probably has to do with the fact that even though the USA and other western superpowers exploited their oil, Iraq was still able to benefit from the wealth it brought considering how much it was. So it would just be next-level retardness for their GDP to be as low as ours. Also, African countries, in general, were just doomed to fail compared to the MENA world and other Asians. Mind you Kenya suffers more under neo-colonialism than Iraq to this day despite Iraq being a hell on earth for the past few decades and Kenya being relatively stableIraq GDP= $245 billion
Ethiopia+somalia+djibouti+eritrea+kenya+Sudan GDP = $240 billion
Africa is next level shithole