{"id":1192,"date":"2021-12-02T03:12:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2021-12-02T03:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:12:25","slug":"powerhouse-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/2021\/12\/02\/powerhouse-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerhouse in the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar is a country located on the Persian Gulf, and they have a booming economy thanks to the abundance of natural resources that are used for energy. Their Gross Domestic Product per capita is an astounding $127,700, which makes it the highest in the region by a wide margin. In comparison to the United States, Qatar is about double. This could be for a variety of reasons, like population size. The United States has a population of 329.5 million people, while Qatar only has 2.881 million. Although they are a small country, they are still in the top 15 producers of oil and 6<sup>th<\/sup> for natural gas. Since these two energy sources are so common in today\u2019s life, it is easy to say that Qatar\u2019s economy relies heavily on the income they bring. The two combined amount for around 60% for their export earnings, GDP, and their total government revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar is a country located on the Persian Gulf, and they have a booming economy thanks to the abundance of natural resources that are used for energy. Their Gross Domestic Product per capita is an astounding $127,700, which makes it the highest in the region by a wide margin. In comparison to the United States,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/2021\/12\/02\/powerhouse-in-the-middle-east\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Powerhouse in the Middle East<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9197371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}