Official: Iran World’s 19th Biggest Economy
Head of Iran’s Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) Davoud Manzour wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, that the gross domestic product of the country is $1.81 trillion.
He added that Iran’s GDP will reach $2.5 trillion within the next five years.
Iranian Deputy Economy Minister and Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Mohammad Rezvanifar had announced in January that the country has exported 101.904 million tons of non-oil goods valued at $36.43 billion during the first nine months of the current Persian calendar year (started on March 21).
Rezvanifar underlined that the nine-month non-oil exports indicates 26.48 percent growth in weight, but 0.68 percent fall in value, year on year, adding that the country's exports in the first nine months of this year, including oil, electricity, and technical and engineering services, and excluding the export via suitcase trade, reached $63.97 billion.
He put the value of the exports of oil at $26.46 billion, electricity at $300 million, and technical and engineering services at $780 million in the first nine months of the current year.
Rezvanifar also said that Iran has imported 28.7 million tons of goods worth over $48.4 billion in the first nine months of the current year, of which $60 million was the value of electricity import.
The nine-month import indicates a 12.29 percent rise in value and six percent growth in weight, year on year, he added.
The deputy economy minister also said that the imports of basic goods to the country reached 18.374 million tons in the first 9 months of the current year, valued at $12.116 billion.
"China with 10.3 billion dollars, Iraq with 6.9 billion dollars, the United Arab Emirates with 4.7 billion dollars, Turkey with 3.3 billion dollars, and India with 1.7 billion dollars are the five countries that have the most imports from Iran," Rezvanifar said, adding that the 5 countries that exported the most to Iran, included the UAE with $15 billion, China with $13.7 billion, Turkey with $5.3 billion, Germany with $1.6 billion, and India with $1.4 billion.
“During this period, 38.2 million tons of petrochemical products worth $15 billion were exported,” he added.
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