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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971

1971, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971 covers 128 countries. Qatar is highest, at 46.3906; 11 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 1.7429. Against 1970, 116 values changed (31 up, 85 down), 2 countries joined.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1971

HighestQatar

46.3906

Lowest11 countries share it

0.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 128 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia46.3906
2OmanOMNWestern Asia43.5509
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia37.5826
4Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia29.7183
5ZambiaZMBEastern Africa23.7034
6New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia23.1941
7IraqIRQWestern Asia19.7921
8MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia19.6130
9GuyanaGUYSouth America18.4955
10SurinameSURSouth America17.8625
11IranIRNSouthern Asia16.4585
12EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa15.0597
13MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa10.2587
14GabonGABMiddle Africa9.6965
15Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa8.0668
16MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia7.9556
17Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa7.7613
18AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa7.7383
19DR CongoCODMiddle Africa7.7233
20JamaicaJAMCaribbean7.3923
21VenezuelaVENSouth America7.3879
22RwandaRWAEastern Africa7.1629
23LesothoLSOSouthern Africa7.0529
24UgandaUGAEastern Africa6.6669
25ChileCHLSouth America6.6049

02In 1971

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar46.3906
  2. 2Oman43.5509
  3. 3Kuwait37.5826
  4. 4Saudi Arabia29.7183
  5. 5Zambia23.7034

Lowest

  1. 118Seychellesshared0.0000
  2. 118Sudanshared0.0000
  3. 118Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  4. 118Maltashared0.0000
  5. 118Monacoshared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.7429. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031970 → 1971

Since 1970

What changed between 1970 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 116values changed, of 126 in both
  • 31 · 85rose · fell
  • 10unchanged

Rose most

  • Qatar37.4697 → 46.3906+8.9209
  • Saudi Arabia25.6178 → 29.7183+4.1005
  • Iraq16.0341 → 19.7921+3.7580
  • Iran12.7573 → 16.4585+3.7012
  • Kuwait34.8918 → 37.5826+2.6908

Fell most

+ New Zealand+ Solomon Islands

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1971.

  • 118 distinct values among 128

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 17 decimals. 11 countries share 0.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 128 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1971). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971 [data set], describing 1971. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1971

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971?

Qatar, at 46.3906, of the 128 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971 describe?

1971.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971 cover?

128.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1971 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021.

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