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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979

1979, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979 covers 132 countries. Saudi Arabia is highest, at 87.2846; 11 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 3.5783. Against 1978, 120 values changed (88 up, 32 down), 1 country joined, 3 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1979

HighestSaudi Arabia

87.2846

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), 1979, 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 132 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia87.2846
2QatarQATWestern Asia87.0500
3OmanOMNWestern Asia79.7408
4MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia65.3818
5GabonGABMiddle Africa56.6767
6United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia56.6717
7NigeriaNGAWestern Africa43.1496
8Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa43.0659
9AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa39.0841
10MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia38.5833
11IranIRNSouthern Asia36.9625
12VenezuelaVENSouth America36.4814
13IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia34.9227
14Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean34.6173
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa29.9128
16GuyanaGUYSouth America26.4071
17Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa23.6010
18Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia22.3522
19UgandaUGAEastern Africa20.9013
20ChinaCHNEastern Asia17.0999
21ZambiaZMBEastern Africa17.0941
22SyriaSYRWestern Asia16.9308
23TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa16.7962
24SurinameSURSouth America14.2432
25EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa13.1625

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Saudi Arabia87.2846
  2. 2Qatar87.0500
  3. 3Oman79.7408
  4. 4Myanmar65.3818
  5. 5Gabon56.6767

Lowest

  1. 122Seychellesshared0.0000
  2. 122Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  3. 122Maltashared0.0000
  4. 122Monacoshared0.0000
  5. 122Liechtensteinshared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.5783. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −3countries joined / left
  • 120values changed, of 131 in both
  • 88 · 32rose · fell
  • 11unchanged

Rose most

  • Saudi Arabia44.9126 → 87.2846+42.3721
  • Qatar49.6054 → 87.0500+37.4446
  • Myanmar33.9830 → 65.3818+31.3988
  • Oman49.6155 → 79.7408+30.1252
  • Gabon30.3448 → 56.6767+26.3319

Fell most

+ Vanuatu− Brunei− Iraq− Kuwait

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 1979.

  • 122 distinct values among 132

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 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 132 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 (1979). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1979

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979?

Saudi Arabia, at 87.2846, of the 132 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979 cover?

132.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1979?

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), 1979 the newest?

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

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