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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974

1974, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974 covers 129 countries. Qatar is highest, at 74.8734; 9 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 4.1719. Against 1973, 119 values changed (79 up, 40 down), 1 country joined.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1974

HighestQatar

74.8734

Lowest9 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), 1974, 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 129 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1QatarQATWestern Asia74.8734
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia71.1708
3Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia67.5207
4OmanOMNWestern Asia63.7251
5BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia62.6067
6IraqIRQWestern Asia62.5128
7IranIRNSouthern Asia47.8114
8GreenlandGRLNorthern America46.9069
9GabonGABMiddle Africa43.8577
10VenezuelaVENSouth America33.9479
11ZambiaZMBEastern Africa31.7538
12Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia30.5715
13Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa29.5241
14NigeriaNGAWestern Africa28.5373
15AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa28.4845
16SurinameSURSouth America28.4606
17Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean27.0601
18MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia24.8759
19GuyanaGUYSouth America22.3655
20TogoTGOWestern Africa21.3654
21IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia20.4671
22MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia20.4644
23CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia14.8193
24TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa12.9693
25MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa12.8825

02In 1974

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Qatar74.8734
  2. 2Kuwait71.1708
  3. 3Saudi Arabia67.5207
  4. 4Oman63.7251
  5. 5Brunei62.6067

Lowest

  1. 121Seychellesshared0.0000
  2. 121Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  3. 121Maltashared0.0000
  4. 121Monacoshared0.0000
  5. 121Liechtensteinshared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 4.1719. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 119values changed, of 128 in both
  • 79 · 40rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

Rose most

  • Brunei24.8463 → 62.6067+37.7604
  • Greenland9.5724 → 46.9069+37.3345
  • Iraq29.1510 → 62.5128+33.3618
  • Gabon13.1957 → 43.8577+30.6620
  • Iran19.2995 → 47.8114+28.5119

Fell most

+ Barbados

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 1974.

  • 121 distinct values among 129

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 9 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 129 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 (1974). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1974

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974?

Qatar, at 74.8734, of the 129 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974 describe?

1974.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974 cover?

129.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1974?

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), 1974 the newest?

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

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