Bro there is a difference between Nominal GDP and PPP and what matters is Nominal GDP.
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There are 350 thousand Syrians who were living in Egypt even before the Syrian revolution and another 0.5 million working in Jordan .
Both Egypt and Jordan are poor countries yet Syrians sought to work there and I did not add the large numbers in the gulf where they work for 300 dollars per month.
I have tons of Syrians here and if they read what you wrote about how " rich " Syria is then their reply to you would be horrible.
Syria is simply a failed state and people deserve a much better government than this, if Syria was prosperous as you claim people would have not went out against government in first place.
Calling other countries failed state is considered trolling. Kindly stop.