| |
Area (sq.km) |
Natural Resources |
Population |
GDP (billion USD) |
Inflation (%) |
Budget |
Industries |
Exports (billion USD) |
Imports (billion USD) |
| Bahrain |
620 |
oil, natural gas, fish |
616,324 |
8.2 |
-0.2 |
revenues: $1.7 billion
expenditures: $1.9 billion |
petroleum processing and
refining, aluminum smelting, offshore banking, ship repairing; tourism |
4.6 |
3.7 |
| Egypt |
1,001,450 |
petroleum, natural gas, iron
ore, phosphates, manganese, limestone, gypsum, talc, asbestos, lead, zinc |
66,050,004 |
267.1 |
4.9 |
revenues: $19.2 billion
expenditures: $19.8 billion |
textiles, food processing,
tourism, chemicals, petroleum, construction, cement, metals |
5.1 |
15.5 |
| Iraq |
437,072 |
petroleum, natural gas,
phosphates, sulfur |
21,722,287 |
42.8 |
n/a |
n/a |
petroleum, chemicals, textiles,
construction materials, food processing |
n/a |
n/a |
| Jordan |
89,213 |
phosphates, potash, shale oil |
4,434,978 |
20.7 |
3 |
revenues: $2.7 billion
expenditures: $2.8 billion |
phosphate mining, petroleum
refining, cement, potash, light manufacturing |
1.53 |
3.7 |
| Kuwait |
17,820 |
petroleum, fish, shrimp,
natural gas |
1,913,285 |
46.3 |
3.2 |
revenues: $10.3 billion
expenditures: $14.5 billion |
petroleum, petrochemicals,
desalination, food processing, construction materials, salt, construction |
14.7 |
7.7 |
| Lebanon |
10,452 |
limestone, iron ore, salt,
water-surplus state in a water-deficit region |
3,806,795 |
15.2 |
9 |
revenues: $2.4 billion
expenditures: $5.9 billion |
banking; food processing;
jewelry; cement; textiles; mineral and chemical products; wood and furniture products; oil
refining; metal fabricating |
1.01 |
7.5 |
| Oman |
212,460 |
petroleum, copper, asbestos,
some marble, limestone, chromium, gypsum, natural gas |
2,363,591 |
17.2 |
1 |
revenues: $5.2 billion
expenditures: $6 billion |
crude oil production and
refining, natural gas production, construction, cement, copper |
7.6 |
4.8 |
| West Bank and Gaza |
21,130 |
copper, phosphates, bromide,
potash, clay, sand, sulfur, asphalt, manganese, small amounts of natural gas and crude oil |
2,485,652 |
1 |
8.4 |
revenues: $684 million
expenditures: $779 million |
generally small family
businesses that produce textiles, soap, olive-wood carvings, and mother-of-pearl
souvenirs. |
0.63 |
1.7 |
| Quatar |
11,437 |
petroleum, natural gas, fish |
697,126 |
11.2 |
2.5 |
revenues: $3.7 billion
expenditures: $4.5 billion |
crude oil production and
refining, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement |
5.8 |
5 |
| Saudi Arabia |
1,960,582 |
petroleum, natural gas, iron
ore, gold, copper |
20,785,955 |
206.5 |
0 |
revenues: $47.5 billion
expenditures: $52.3 billion |
crude oil production, petroleum
refining, basic petrochemicals, cement, two small steel-rolling mills, construction,
fertilizer, plastics |
56.7 |
25.4 |
| Syria |
185,180 |
petroleum, phosphates, chrome
and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum |
16,673,282 |
106.1 |
15-20 |
revenues: $3.9 billion
expenditures: $4.3 billion |
petroleum, textiles, food
processing, beverages, tobacco, phosphate rock mining |
4.2 |
5.7 |
| U.A.E. |
82,880 |
petroleum, natural gas |
2,303,088 |
54.2 |
3.6 |
revenues: $5.1 billion
expenditures: $5.4 billion |
petroleum, fishing,
petrochemicals, construction materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling |
33.2 |
23.5 |
| Yemen |
527,970 |
petroleum, fish, rock salt,
marble, small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper, fertile soil in west |
16,387,963 |
31.8 |
5 |
revenues: $2.6 billion
expenditures: $2.7 billion |
crude oil production and
petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food
processing; handicrafts; small aluminum products factory; cement |
2.3 |
2.3 |
| Israel |
20,770 |
copper, phosphates, bromide,
potash, clay, sand, sulfur, asphalt, manganese, small amounts of natural gas and crude oil |
5,643,966 |
96.7 |
9 |
revenues: $55 billion
expenditures: $58 billion |
food processing, diamond
cutting and polishing, textiles and apparel, chemicals, metal products, military
equipment, transport equipment, electrical equipment, potash mining, high-technology
electronics, tourism |
20.7 |
28.6 |
