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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996

1996, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996 covers 192 countries. Equatorial Guinea is highest, at 68.66834; 13 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00000. The middle country reads 1.61808. Against 1995, 179 values changed (81 up, 98 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1996

HighestEquatorial Guinea

68.66834

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), 1996, 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 192 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa68.66834
2TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia58.59789
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa41.36172
4KuwaitKWTWestern Asia41.17920
5QatarQATWestern Asia40.45223
6Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa39.26878
7OmanOMNWestern Asia37.14482
8YemenYEMWestern Asia36.58436
9IraqIRQWestern Asia36.47817
10DR CongoCODMiddle Africa36.29903
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia34.37541
12GabonGABMiddle Africa32.92083
13LibyaLBYNorthern Africa31.89508
14GuyanaGUYSouth America29.78711
15Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa29.52371
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa28.92466
17EthiopiaETHEastern Africa28.66874
18BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia26.94441
19AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia26.03896
20Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa24.17086
21VenezuelaVENSouth America23.83677
22BahrainBHRWestern Asia22.47407
23NigeriaNGAWestern Africa21.41451
24AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa21.17192
25IranIRNSouthern Asia20.98946

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Equatorial Guinea68.66834
  2. 2Turkmenistan58.59789
  3. 3Angola41.36172
  4. 4Kuwait41.17920
  5. 5Qatar40.45223

Lowest

  1. 180Tuvalushared0.00000
  2. 180Palestineshared0.00000
  3. 180Puerto Ricoshared0.00000
  4. 180Maltashared0.00000
  5. 180Marshall Islandsshared0.00000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.61808. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 179values changed, of 192 in both
  • 81 · 98rose · fell
  • 13unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1996.

  • 180 distinct values among 192

    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 192 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 (1996). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1996

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996?

Equatorial Guinea, at 68.66834, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996 cover?

192.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1996?

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), 1996 the newest?

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

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