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Interesting. Russia is less oil dependent than SA, but the Saudi's have more oil per capita.

Russia is less oil dependent than SA...

Are you sure? Everything I've read has said some variation of _Russia is heavily dependent on oil exports_ [1]. Russia has a massive cash reserve to weather this crisis but they're still being hurt just as badly as KSA.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2020/03/12/814824039/how-russia-is-react...

They didn't say Russia wasn't heavily dependent on oil. They said KSA was even more dependent.

From their Wikipedia pages, 40% of SA's GDP is oil[1] versus 16% of Russia's[2], also 90% of SA's exports versus 70% of Russia's. Certainly both countries are disastrously hurt by a collapse in oil prices, but SA seems to be worse off.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

The Saudis also have a massive population of what are effectively indentured servants and the ability to get more or expel them at will, so that dependency comes with a degree of flexibility to modify their own economy.

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