is bahrain poor?

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UAE

Discussion Starter · May 14, 2006

compared with other gulf states?

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Halawala

· #2 · May 14, 2006

^^ Ur threads always crack me up! loool :haha:

Bahrain has a lot of poor people; but it is in no way considered "a poor country." Bahrain's GDP per capita is just over $20,000 compared to Saudi Arabia's $14,000. So its not the poorest our of the Gulf states (Oman has a GDP of $13,000. Got my research thing going on.. lol

Skyprince

· #3 · May 14, 2006

I am a Malaysian and hav been to Bahrain but cannot say anything because Bahrain is a small island similar in size to Singapore . But Bahrain is a developed country. The airport is Cool !

Wild el Bahrain

· #4 · May 14, 2006

Thanx Halawala u spared me from looking up for the numbers

We might be the country with the least oil production levels but that doesnt tell the whole story..Unfortunately neither does the GDP per capita.

Halawala

· #5 · May 14, 2006

Bahrain is almost twice the size of Singapore...

Bahraini Spirit

· #6 · May 14, 2006

Halawala said:
Bahrain is almost twice the size of Singapore...

Wrong bro, it used to be smaller but with all this freakin reclamation we might just tip em off by a bit in the not so far future.

Singapore: 692.7 sq km
Bahrain: 665 sq km

I tell you what, if Bahrain's money was used properly, you'd see that Per capita over $30,000 ages ago. They aim to make it that in I dunno how many years, 10 if am not wrong. Again, per capita is deceiving, looks at tons of western countries, high per capitas but once you go there, you see loads of unfortunate people that are in disastrous conditions when compared to say the ones we have in bahrain.

Oh ya, the per capita is actually $20,500, you forgot the live savin $500

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Halawala

· #7 · May 14, 2006

Bahraini Spirit said:
Wrong bro, it used to be smaller but with all this freakin reclamation we might just tip em off by a bit in the not so far future.

Singapore: 692.7 sq km
Bahrain: 665 sq km

I tell you what, if Bahrain's money was used properly, you'd see that Per capita over $30,000 ages ago. They aim to make it that in I dunno how many years, 10 if am not wrong. Again, per capita is deceiving, looks at tons of western countries, high per capitas but once you go there, you see loads of unfortunate people that are in disastrous conditions when compared to say the ones we have in bahrain.

Oh ya, the per capita is actually $20,500, you forgot the live savin $500 .

Oh, I forgot floos el betrool :hahaha:

Actually, I was quite surprised because I always thought Singapore was a lot smaller. Whenever I go there, I used to go to places near the Malaysian border which were only 15 or 20 minutes away (which to them was far but to me was sooo close)! Singapore downtown is also mostly reclaimed, Sentosa Island, and the southern coast is all reclaimed land.

Yallah 3ad, do some more islands and beet them!! lool :bash: :bash:

Halawala

· #8 · May 14, 2006

I researched the internet about Singapore's area

Before 1960: 581 km2
During 1990: 633 km2
Today 2006: 692 km2

I am sure Bahrain can easily add 100 km2 with all its land reclaimation that it has done or its doing.

B-Patriot

· #9 · May 14, 2006 (Edited)

We'll surely beat Singapore in making more islands... :tongue2:

We have a whole LOT of that going on....!! The Map will be transformed by 2010...!

And NO, we're not poor...

Look at Saudi and Oman's per capita, like Halawala pointed out...

But in ways we are perhaps less fortunate, even compared to Saudi (e.g. Abundance of Scholarships) now that King Abdulla has become in charge.. But still i much prefer Bahrain for its tolerance, freedom, friendlyness, and general social attitudes and atmosphere (Even if it was poor, which its not)....

Adel

· #10 · May 14, 2006

Imagine if your Grandfather stayed in Hassa and hadn't migrated to Bahrain you would have been a Saudi with a scholarship studying in Bahrain . :jk: :jk:

B-Patriot

· #11 · May 14, 2006

Hahahaah, Who are you, how do u know me :runaway:

Adel

· #12 · May 14, 2006

You mentioned your father was head of a University in Bahrain.

abonoor

· #13 · May 14, 2006

bahrain is smaller country in the gulf have alot of mony but the goverment is stallen that mony and keep the citzen with a low level

imagen that the most of people in bahrain working for a sallary between 180 bd to 200 bd

its between 500 to 550 usa dollar per month and they have to pay alot of things like electricty bill and phone line ,rent of house,car fule etc what will remain for thier family

best regard

CityofVillains

· #14 · Jun 5, 2006

Very informative. But I have to point one thing out, Bahrain has a population of 698,585, which includes 235,108 non-nationals (2006 est.). Where as, the population of Saudi Arabia is 27,019,731 which includes 5,576,076 non-nationals (2006 est.).

Now the per capita income is divided among the number of 'heads' in a country, pretty obvious. Where as, the Saudis have way more heads than Bahrain, its unrealistic to say that Bahrain is richer than Saudi Arabia.

The GDP (purchasing power parity) of the Saudis is $338bn, and if you divide that by 27m, you get 12 and a half, which means the per capita of Saudi Arabia is $12,500 a year.

On the other hand, the Bahraini GDP (purchasing power parity) is only at $15.83bn and if that divided by the local population will result in $23,000 per capita.

Its pretty obvious that Saudi Arabia has a larger GDP, but a larger population has forced the per capita income to be lower.

Lets take a scenerio where the Saudi population equals the population of Bahrain, lets put this at 700,000 people. Along with a $338bn GDP.

So if you divide $338bn / on 700,000 people.. what does that equal ? and who'd be richer ? the Saudi's or the Bahrainis' ?

But anyhow, thats just food for thought. Back to reality, the average Bahraini is richer than an average Saudi, but that is because of the population factor.

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shayan

· #15 · Jun 5, 2006

Iraq, Iran, Oman, Saudi are even poorer..

CityofVillains

· #16 · Jun 5, 2006

shayan said:
Iraq, Iran, Oman, Saudi are even poorer..

Larger populations.

Iran $561.6 billion, but divided among 75m people.
Pakistan $400 billion, but divided among 172m people, projected to touch 360m by 2030.
Saudi $338 billion, but divided among 27m people.
Iraq.. invaded, occupied, messed up right now.. and 25m people.
Oman.. needs to bring in economic reforms, it doesn't have a large population. only 3m people. better economic management will usher a new era of omani development.

The countries mentioned above besides Oman need to control population growth. Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar have been very successful at this.

UofT

· #17 · Jun 5, 2006

Saudi Arabia's per capita GDP will sky rocket soon enough, In the 80's Saudi was one of the wealthiest nations in the world and that was during high crude prices.

The Crude prices are now at a 30 year high and expect Saudi's per capita GDP to relfect that.

Bahrain is in no way poor at all and Inshallah they will hit 30,000 per capita GDP soon enough.

Matthias Offodile

· #18 · Jun 5, 2006

Germany´s GDP is around $25 000 and I can assure you that there is a lot of poverty around....the gap between the have and have nots widens considerably if you compare Germany nowadays to that really rich country it was some 10 to 15 years back. The country is falling steadily but politicians are not telling the truth in order to remain in power in the name of "democracy". Debts of the country are sky-rocketing and the next generation will no longer live so pampered than the present generation does.

I would love to swop Bahrain for Germany.

musang

· #19 · Jun 17, 2006

Halawala said:
Singapore downtown is also mostly reclaimed, Sentosa Island, and the southern coast is all reclaimed land.

Sentosa Island was never built on a reclaimed land, it was previously known as 'Pulau Blakang Mati' (word to word translation reads as "pulau - island, blakang - backside, mati - dead").. which part of Singapore's downtown were u referring to?

RafflesCity

· #20 · Jun 17, 2006

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^^

Indeed. Sentosa Island is a natural island (former British fort), although some reclamation work has extended its land area for residential developments:

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