Iran · GDP · USD bn (current)

## What this measures

The size of Iran's economy at market exchange rates.

## Why it matters

Scale — for weighting a country in a portfolio, a supply chain or a market-sizing exercise.

## How to read it

Moves with the exchange rate as much as with output; a falling currency shrinks dollar GDP even when the economy grows.

## What it does not say

Market-rate GDP understates the size of economies with low domestic prices; use GDP per capita (PPP) for living standards.

## Source

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), indicator `NY.GDP.MKTP.CD`, annual.