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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990

1990, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990 covers 178 countries. Turkmenistan is highest, at 75.19069; 14 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00000. The middle country reads 3.23176. Against 1989, 151 values changed (92 up, 59 down), 15 countries joined.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1990

HighestTurkmenistan

75.19069

Lowest14 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), 1990, 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 178 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia75.19069
2Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa59.43334
3QatarQATWestern Asia51.15637
4OmanOMNWestern Asia50.48247
5Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia47.20095
6Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa42.72610
7BahrainBHRWestern Asia40.87407
8LibyaLBYNorthern Africa40.38710
9KuwaitKWTWestern Asia39.52294
10BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia38.94423
11United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia36.60270
12GabonGABMiddle Africa33.02869
13VenezuelaVENSouth America29.25485
14AngolaAGOMiddle Africa29.10383
15YemenYEMWestern Asia28.72400
16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia26.88076
17MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia25.52338
18NigeriaNGAWestern Africa25.07457
19SurinameSURSouth America24.92516
20IranIRNSouthern Asia23.98544
21GuyanaGUYSouth America23.13653
22Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia23.01471
23GuineaGINWestern Africa22.11384
24ZambiaZMBEastern Africa20.98182
25Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa20.96668

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Turkmenistan75.19069
  2. 2Cabo Verde59.43334
  3. 3Qatar51.15637
  4. 4Oman50.48247
  5. 5Saudi Arabia47.20095

Lowest

  1. 165Tuvalushared0.00000
  2. 165Puerto Ricoshared0.00000
  3. 165Maltashared0.00000
  4. 165Marshall Islandsshared0.00000
  5. 165Monacoshared0.00000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.23176. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −0countries joined / left
  • 151values changed, of 163 in both
  • 92 · 59rose · fell
  • 12unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Azerbaijan+ Belarus+ Czechia+ Georgia+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Libya+ North Macedonia+ Poland+ Slovakia+ Tajikistan+ Tuvalu+ Uzbekistan+ Yemen

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 1990.

  • 165 distinct values among 178

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 14 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 178 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 (1990). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1990

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990?

Turkmenistan, at 75.19069, of the 178 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990 cover?

178.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1990?

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), 1990 the newest?

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

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