A Big Data analysis of the Middle-East and Post-Soviet Countries with data taken from the World Bank.

1. Middle East
& Russia

2. Russia
Armenia

3. Region Economic Overview
GDP per Capita GDP Growth

4. Russia
Armenia

5. Population Growth

6. Economic Overview
GDP per Capita

7. Region
Post- Soviet
Non-Soviet
Iran
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Russia
Ukrainian
Belarus
Romania
Moldova
Bulgaria
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbedian
Uzbekistan
Turkmenistan

8. Kazakhstan
Turkey
Irak

9. Economic Overview
GDP per Capita GDP Growth

10. Contribution to subregions economy
ServicesAgriculture Industry

11. AzerbaijanUzbekistan
ServicesAgriculture Industry
Outliers
Uzbekistan
Azerbaijan

12. Azerbaijan’s industry-based economy?
?

13. Azerbaijan’s petroleum-based economy
Source: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/aze/all/show/2011/

14. GDP Growth
Azerbaijan’s petroleum-based economy

15. Azerbaijan’s petroleum-based economy

16. Uzbekistan’s agriculture-based economy
?

17. Uzbekistan’s agriculture-based economy
Source: https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/uzb/all/show/2011/

18. Economic Overview
GDP per Capita GDP Growth

19. Agriculture vs GDP per capita

20. Agriculture vs GDP per capita
Uzbekistan
Pakistan
Afghanistan

21. Population

22. Population Size Overview

23. Age Dependency
Below 15 y/oTotal Over 64 y/o
Moldova
Turkmenistan

24. Age Dependency and Population Growth

25. Infrastructure

26. Access to Electricity

27. Afghanistan vs. Pakistan...What’s happening?
Pakistan:
Lack of management and foresight from government
Afghanistan:
$4 billion investment from Asian Development Bank
“More than half of total supply comes from from our neighbors Iran,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and that is unlikely to change
in the near term”
- Abdul Samadi (Head of national power utilities)

28. Health

29. HIV Prevalence in Region

30. HIV Prevalence over time

31. HIV Prevalence in Region
• HIV cases in Russia tripled in 2000
• 49,434 HIV-infected persons
• 94% were injection-drug users
• Increased 33-fold in Oryol Oblast

33. Education

34. ME → low literacy rate, low GDP
PS → high literacy rate, low GDP
Iran - HIghest growth in the last 30 years
Middle East Region has a lower literacy rate
• But not necessarily a lower GDP, for example Iran

35. Iran - GDP per capita vs Literacy rate
• Iran has growth 50% in the last 25 years

36. Literacy rate increased lead by women inclusion
1975-2015
● 65% increase in female
● 40% in male literacy

37. Iran - GDP per capita vs School Enrollment
• Since 1990 Iran has growth from 65% to 85%

38. Employment

39. Employment - Army (Outlier Countries)
PS → Armed forces personnel Outlier
● Armenia 3.56%
● Belarus 3%

40. Employment - Agriculture
PS → Agriculture employment
● Giorgia
● Moldova
ME → Agriculture employment
● Pakistan 42 %
● Afghanistan 38%

41. Employment - Services Sector
PS → Services
● Median is higher
● Russia - 67%
● Ukraine employ - 60%

42. Employment - Industry
Turkmenistan and Iran have higher employment in industry

43. Conclusion

44. Russia
Armenia

45. Economic Overview
GDP per Capita GDP Growth