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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987

1987, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987 covers 160 countries. Turkmenistan is highest, at 66.98634; 13 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00000. The middle country reads 2.32134. Against 1986, 142 values changed (71 up, 71 down), 5 countries joined.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1987

HighestTurkmenistan

66.98634

Lowest13 countries share it

0.00000

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), 1987, 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 160 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia66.98634
2Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa60.87967
3OmanOMNWestern Asia41.90055
4BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia35.10041
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia33.74584
6QatarQATWestern Asia30.28693
7MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia28.63191
8GuyanaGUYSouth America28.23977
9Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia28.00818
10MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia25.88629
11United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia24.30873
12Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia24.25909
13KuwaitKWTWestern Asia24.19247
14GuineaGINWestern Africa22.02234
15Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa21.68949
16IraqIRQWestern Asia20.07849
17Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa19.94011
18GabonGABMiddle Africa18.30202
19Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa17.72242
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa16.46588
21AngolaAGOMiddle Africa16.10655
22VenezuelaVENSouth America15.91663
23Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean14.45525
24Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa14.29303
25EgyptEGYNorthern Africa12.85943

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Turkmenistan66.98634
  2. 2Cabo Verde60.87967
  3. 3Oman41.90055
  4. 4Brunei35.10041
  5. 5Bahrain33.74584

Lowest

  1. 148Seychellesshared0.00000
  2. 148Puerto Ricoshared0.00000
  3. 148Maltashared0.00000
  4. 148Marshall Islandsshared0.00000
  5. 148Monacoshared0.00000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.32134. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 142values changed, of 155 in both
  • 71 · 71rose · fell
  • 13unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cabo Verde+ Djibouti+ Romania+ Turkmenistan+ Ukraine

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 1987.

  • 148 distinct values among 160

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 13 countries share 0.00000. 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 160 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 (1987). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1987

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987?

Turkmenistan, at 66.98634, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987 cover?

160.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1987?

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), 1987 the newest?

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

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