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Sinan
Mate, I do not think that those data are entirely correct. From which year are they from? What's the source? They don't correspondent to the local data and sources fully.
You can check out the "KSA Economy & News" thread and see many local articles and other international articles that show that the non-oil/gas/natural resources sector of KSA now contributes to around 45-50% of the total GDP (nominal). Not 77% by any means.
IIF forecasts strong growth prospects for GCC countries | GulfNews.com
Who said anything about comparable? You must have misunderstood what I wrote. I meant that 10 million big UAE, of which large parts of its economy have nothing to do with natural resources, have an economy that is only 3 times smaller than 80 million big Turkey.
The GCC as a whole has a GDP (nominal) close to 2 trillion US dollar as of 2014. Almost 3 times Turkey. And it's not our fault that we are rich in natural resources. Russia is that too and dozens of other countries. Yet their economy is as it is.
Our non-oil/gas sector grows at a rapid speed despite many moronic laws and women (half of the workforce) still contributing FAR to little.