[ggg9990]

But there are many absurdly wealthy Muslim countries.

[RandallBrown]

But is the whole country absurdly wealthy? A rich ruling class might not be large enough to offset the numbers.

[carlmr]

In the cases I can think of the whole country is rich, but they have a large number of slave-workers. Not sure if the slave-workers are counted in their health statistics or just seen as property anyway.