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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991

1991, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991 covers 177 countries. Cabo Verde is highest, at 56.3332; 13 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.1396. Against 1990, 162 values changed (34 up, 128 down), 2 countries joined, 3 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1991

HighestCabo Verde

56.3332

Lowest13 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), 1991, 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 177 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa56.3332
2TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia40.5148
3OmanOMNWestern Asia32.5938
4QatarQATWestern Asia30.9476
5Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia30.6034
6GuyanaGUYSouth America29.8570
7Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa25.3754
8United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia24.9355
9MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia24.8804
10BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia24.5445
11LibyaLBYNorthern Africa23.9736
12BahrainBHRWestern Asia23.6193
13GabonGABMiddle Africa21.9792
14GuineaGINWestern Africa21.4962
15MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia21.2687
16UgandaUGAEastern Africa20.6021
17SurinameSURSouth America19.9460
18Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia18.2529
19AngolaAGOMiddle Africa17.9680
20Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa17.9183
21NigeriaNGAWestern Africa17.7060
22Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa17.3010
23AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa17.1442
24YemenYEMWestern Asia16.9654
25VenezuelaVENSouth America16.6640

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cabo Verde56.3332
  2. 2Turkmenistan40.5148
  3. 3Oman32.5938
  4. 4Qatar30.9476
  5. 5Saudi Arabia30.6034

Lowest

  1. 165Tuvalushared0.0000
  2. 165Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  3. 165Maltashared0.0000
  4. 165Marshall Islandsshared0.0000
  5. 165Monacoshared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.1396. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −3countries joined / left
  • 162values changed, of 175 in both
  • 34 · 128rose · fell
  • 13unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Hungary+ Mozambique− Iran− Iraq− Somalia

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 1991.

  • 165 distinct values among 177

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 13 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 177 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 (1991). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1991

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991?

Cabo Verde, at 56.3332, of the 177 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991 cover?

177.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1991?

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), 1991 the newest?

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

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