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Iran
#14 of 18 by healthy life years
Current employee: Masoud Pezeshkian
⚔️ Military : 🧪 Trials Ratio
1,030:1
For every $1 spent finding out which medicines work, Iran spends $1,030 on military.
🎮 Game Metrics
❤️ Healthy Life Years (HALE)
65.4
Global avg: · Target:
Needs +19.6 years to hit treaty target
💰 GDP Per Capita
$16.9K
Median income: $3.2K
World Bank PPP 2023
💣 Military vs 🧪 Medicine
💣 Military Spending$10B/yr
🧪 Clinical Trials$10M/yr
Scaled to the same axis as military — the bar is 0.10% of military spending
🧬 Total Medical Research$150M/yr
🏥 Health Spending / Capita$1.6K
📊 Spending Profile
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Health Spending/capita
$1.6K
WHO 2022
⏳
Life Expectancy
74.5 yrs
World Bank 2023
⚖️
Military : Trials Ratio
1,030:1
Weapons per $1 of government clinical trials
🔬
Military : Research Ratio
68.7:1
Weapons per $1 of total government medical research
🧬
Gov Medical Research/yr
$150M
Total research budget (basic science + overhead + admin)
Estimated: 5-8% of ~$3.5B total GERD (0.79% of GDP); health research not a priority ↗🧪
Gov Clinical Trials/yr
$10M
Actual interventional trials, not total research overhead
Estimated: ~6.7% of $150M medical research; investing in health research has not been a priority ↗🔫
Arms Exports/yr
$100M
SIPRI 2023 — mostly small arms and drones
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Debt
32% of GDP
IMF 2024
💀 Body Count
☢️
Nuclear Warheads
0
FAS (enrichment program but no confirmed weapons)
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Civilian Deaths
100,000
Proxy war civilian estimates
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Countries Bombed
3
IISS
💥 Countries Bombed
Iraq (Iran-Iraq war), Israel (2024 missile strikes), Kurdish regions
📜 Death Ledger
Sourced regime and conflict entries summed into the body-count total.
State violence and proxy-war killings
Existing Optimitron grouped estimate spanning the Islamic Republic period.
Period
1979–2025
Deaths
500,000
legacy-composite
⚖️ Justice & Domestic
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Homicide Rate /100K
2.5
UNODC 2022
🗳️ Iran Politician Alignment
Every politician's votes scored against what citizens actually want via pairwise comparison. The gap between what they vote for and what you'd vote for, expressed as a single number.
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Iran spends $10B/yr on military and $10M/yr testing which medicines work. The 1% Treaty redirects 1% of the first number to the second. The deposit funds the campaign to make it happen.