Even if inflation is removed they’re still $8k pcgdp. To be developed you need to be around $12k+ to be developed.
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How come Turkey with $35k per capita GDP PPP is a developing country while Greece with $34k is developed? Portugal $39k, Slovakia $38k GDP PPP per capita shadded with developed country color also similar to Turkey. Categorizing country's development with nominal GDP per capita make little sense. If Indian Rupee suddenly lost it's 50 percent value against US Dollar, does not mean Indians will become half as rich suddenly. If US dollar become 160 per Indian Rupee within a year, will it's agricultural output, industrial output, service output will become half as it's nominal GDP will become half?
When so many other development indicators use PPP dollar as bench mark then why World Bank still use misleading nominal Dollar for development categories? Even poverty calculation by World Bank is done in PPP dollar. When living costs taken into consideration, there is a little difference of living standard among Spain, Turkey, Portugal or Greece. Only difference is the currency strength. Iran artificially manipulated it's currency exchange rate which made it's nominal GDP as large as Australia or Spain. Iran's nominal GDP used to be around 400 billion Dollar 2 years ago, now it is more than 1.7 trillion Dollar! Does that mean, Iran suddenly became a much richer country that it really is? perhaps Iran should farther manipulate it's currency exchange rate to enters into Developed country category by World Bank? It's so easy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) Iran grew nearly 100% from 2020 to 2022 to a GDP nominal output of 1,739,012 (in millions) making it the 14th largest economy in the world, just below Australia. This also makes it the largest economy amongst Muslim nations...
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This is why I think, World Bank should abandon it's old Euro-American elitist mindset and realistically categorize countries based on GDP PPP per capita. They are reluctant of recognizing many countries with high GDP PPP per capita as a peer, that's why they are still clinging to the nominal GDP to differentiate between old rich West and newly developed countries.