The so-called developed countries are to have high per capita income, good economy, science and technology, education and sustainability, and high development index.
But those YSL countries in the Middle East are much more conservative, they are too religious and many reject modernization. The foundations themselves are poor and the education level is backward. And only certain countries are rich in oil and gas resources, although those oil rich countries, with high oil revenue, the cities become very modern and become high income countries. But the education level is still backward, thinking is still very backward, the economic structure is still very deformed, heavily dependent on oil and gas exports, the industrial base is very weak, and some even have to rely on foreign oil refining, almost no independent innovation. The rich are only princes and nobles, the bottom of the people are still very poor, just better welfare, economic pressure is not so big. But also on Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, a few countries can be called rich. Other Middle Eastern countries are either in perennial war, civil unrest, or given to blockades. Like Iraq, Saddam era is very rich and developed, high per capita income, high level of education, welfare is also super good, really free education and health care, but to the Iran-Iraq war dragged down, and then to the United States defeated, and from then on deep into war. Libya in the era of Gaddafi is also considered very rich and stable, and even want to develop aerospace, integration of the African economy, but Gaddafi nonsense, offended the five hooligans, and wanton confiscation of the assets of the Western countries, and the West to engage in confrontation with the West, to the United Kingdom, the United States, France and the opposition armed attacks, and from then on into the war, I do not know when to recover from. Iran used to be very modernized in the era of the Pahlavi dynasty, but after the YSL revolution, the United States was given economic sanctions, and could not import and export normally, making it difficult for the economy to develop, and naturally, it was not developed. Egypt originally oil and gas resources are not much, the economic base is also very poor, mainly rely on the canal to support, but also often civil unrest, and many contradictions with Israel, fought a number of wars, the heavy burden of military expenditures to slow down the development. What Oman, Yemen, Lebanon, Jordan are basically war, terrorism is rampant, the environment is poor, no resources, difficult to develop the economy.