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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981 covers 148 countries. Bahrain is highest, at 60.6677; 12 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.9964. Against 1980, 134 values changed (23 up, 111 down), 3 countries joined.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1981

HighestBahrain

60.6677

Lowest12 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), 1981, 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 148 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BahrainBHRWestern Asia60.6677
2Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia55.8014
3QatarQATWestern Asia48.4260
4OmanOMNWestern Asia46.9804
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia46.8387
6MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia44.5580
7BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia39.2975
8UgandaUGAEastern Africa36.7308
9United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia33.4087
10EgyptEGYNorthern Africa28.5112
11IranIRNSouthern Asia27.2672
12IraqIRQWestern Asia27.1614
13Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa26.9790
14Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean26.5160
15MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia26.4833
16AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa26.0705
17VenezuelaVENSouth America24.7509
18GuyanaGUYSouth America23.0618
19Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa20.6974
20Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa20.1364
21Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia20.1296
22GabonGABMiddle Africa19.6621
23ChinaCHNEastern Asia19.4674
24IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia19.4532
25MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa17.6337

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Bahrain60.6677
  2. 2Saudi Arabia55.8014
  3. 3Qatar48.4260
  4. 4Oman46.9804
  5. 5Kuwait46.8387

Lowest

  1. 137Seychellesshared0.0000
  2. 137Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  3. 137Maltashared0.0000
  4. 137Marshall Islandsshared0.0000
  5. 137Monacoshared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.9964. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 134values changed, of 145 in both
  • 23 · 111rose · fell
  • 11unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Iraq55.2823 → 27.1614−28.1209
  • Myanmar69.2286 → 44.5580−24.6706
  • Nigeria26.7349 → 4.6285−22.1064
  • Qatar69.6727 → 48.4260−21.2468
  • Kuwait67.8444 → 46.8387−21.0057
+ Ethiopia+ Marshall Islands+ Mongolia

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 1981.

  • 137 distinct values among 148

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 12 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 148 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 (1981). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1981

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981?

Bahrain, at 60.6677, of the 148 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981 cover?

148.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1981?

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), 1981 the newest?

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

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