saudi arabia gdp: GDP: 40% oil or about 70 billion kuwait gdp 29 billion 50 % oil or 14 billion oil iran exports about 20 billion of oil total about 100 billion microsoft cisco ge intel ibm dell microsoft have more cash reserves than the entire yearly production of iran plus kuwait plus saudi arabia oil. oil is small potatoes the war is about bringing economy and production into the middle east to replace tribalism and superstition what if the middle east produced 10 percent of the worlds GDP independent of oil? what if the middle east was 1/3 as productive as taiwan