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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982

1982, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982 covers 149 countries. Oman is highest, at 37.6830; 12 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.9324. Against 1981, 135 values changed (71 up, 64 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1982

HighestOman

37.6830

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), 1982, 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 149 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1OmanOMNWestern Asia37.6830
2Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia36.9129
3QatarQATWestern Asia35.9421
4BahrainBHRWestern Asia34.7757
5MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia34.6768
6GuyanaGUYSouth America34.1639
7Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa33.3648
8KuwaitKWTWestern Asia32.6928
9UgandaUGAEastern Africa31.2140
10MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia31.1968
11Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa25.9100
12BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia24.4443
13United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia23.0115
14MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa21.9235
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa21.3062
16IraqIRQWestern Asia20.0453
17IranIRNSouthern Asia20.0016
18Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia19.9372
19AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa19.2756
20EthiopiaETHEastern Africa18.1721
21BhutanBTNSouthern Asia17.2880
22ChinaCHNEastern Asia16.7509
23SomaliaSOMEastern Africa15.9635
24TogoTGOWestern Africa14.8723
25ChadTCDMiddle Africa14.6271

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Oman37.6830
  2. 2Saudi Arabia36.9129
  3. 3Qatar35.9421
  4. 4Bahrain34.7757
  5. 5Myanmar34.6768

Lowest

  1. 138Seychellesshared0.0000
  2. 138Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  3. 138Maltashared0.0000
  4. 138Marshall Islandsshared0.0000
  5. 138Monacoshared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.9324. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

What changed between 1981 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 135values changed, of 147 in both
  • 71 · 64rose · fell
  • 12unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Macau+ Samoa− Afghanistan

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 1982.

  • 138 distinct values among 149

    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 149 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 (1982). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1982

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982?

Oman, at 37.6830, of the 149 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982 describe?

1982.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982 cover?

149.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1982?

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), 1982 the newest?

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

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