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Population

IRAN 2013 census 77,176,930[5] (17th)

SAUDI ARABIA 2012 estimate 29,195,895[8] (43rd)

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I had always been surprised as how many Iranians there were. I wasn't surprised by the low Saudi population. There was nothing there to support the Bedouins. The water was scarce and brackish, YUCK. They got what no one else wanted. No one else in the world wanted to live in that empty wasteland.
In fact, they have an "Empty Quarter" in their kingdom. Imagine how useless that land is.
It's was God's irony that landed them on all that wealth, wasn't it? God's irony and the West's need for petroleum products.