Asia Times notes that Iran has vastly underperformed South Korea since 1970 in terms of GDP performance.
Here is compilation of information from wikipedia and nationmaster and CIA world fact books for GDP information for the end of each decade
Here is a list of nominal GDP mostly for 2006.
Country GDP 1970 1980 1990 2000 2005 2010 USA 1025 2769 5757 9765 12417 14800 China 91.5 188.2 354.6 1198 2244 5365 India 60.4 181.8 316.9 460 806 1367 South Korea 8.9 63.8 263.8 512 791 991 Saudi Arabia 5.0 164.3 116.8 188 310 438 Iran 10.6 90.0 116.0 101 190 360 Egypt 7.7 22.9 43.1 100 90 216 Israel 5.4 21.8 52.5 115 123 199 Pakistan 10.0 23.7 40.0 73 111 178 Vietnam ? ? 14.2 31 53 103 Iraq 3.6 47.6 35.0 26 54 80 North Korea ? ? 28 22.6 29.6 ?
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