Poorest Countries with Exceptions

Good idea, but most countries in North America aren't exactly rich.

Reless already made that quiz

Indeed, the latest data would include East Timor; we could also have the Palestine debate, but let's save that for another day and just include East Timor. :)

Evers15, first of all read the title and the directions for this quiz. If you're so good at geography and you can't figure that out I'm going to crack up XD. NO AFRICAN COUNTRIES

You also missed the instructions at the beginning of the quiz.

It's a common misconception to assume that dictatorships correlate with poverty. Keep in mind that Saudi Arabia is both incredibly autocratic and incredibly wealthy, and that South Korea and Singapore had incredible developmental successes under dictators.

Political instability and corruption correlate better with poverty than just autocracy. China is a very stable dictatorship; India is a pretty unstable democracy. It's pretty clear which one is doing better now economically. I'm not endorsing dictatorship of course, I just want to point this out.

Moldova and Myanmar make the list. The poorest country in South America is Bolivia. Guyana is the 2nd poorest. But both are less poor than India.

Guyana and Suriname have quite low population density and quite high Hindu population. You might want to look for quizzes like that.

I know how that country should be spelled, but it usually takes me several times to make my fingers type it correctly. It always takes up time for me. When I'm Queen of the World, I'll change the name to Kystan. :)

They both have some but not as much as their neighbors; corruption, political turmoil and civil war have kept their resources from being fully exploited.

It depends where you draw the line

No? It's generally considered to be in Asia.

They haven't earned the title poorest country in Europe for nothing.

Probably because this quiz is about countries that are NOT in Africa and Oceania.

The quiz has been updated.

Every superpower had areas that were not as modern or prosperous, especially one as huge and wide ranging as the USSR.

And you realize the soviet communist/socialist system itself is to blame for leaving those areas high and dry once the USSR broke up? It's not by coincidence that there is a ton of corruption and poor governance, and very little in the way of proper support for entrepreneurship there.

The Soviet -stans are landlocked and lack natural resources. Given that, they'd need some kind of innovative production economy to compete, which usually requires a government that is most interested in serving its people. The governments in this area tend to be autocratic and corrupt, with a primary interest in maintaining power and quelling dissent. You add in the facts that these countries were born of the Soviet economic system and they have many tribal citizens uninterested in economic might, and you've got a recipe for poverty.

Why? It is completely unnecessary.

Yes, according to North Korea itself.

It's 2023 now and it's not on the list. I'm surprised actually.

Sure, why not? Been to 9 of these, so far.