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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006

2006, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006 covers 206 countries. Iraq is highest, at 63.72695; 20 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00000. The middle country reads 1.82838. Against 2005, 186 values changed (133 up, 53 down), 1 country joined.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2006

HighestIraq

63.72695

Lowest20 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), 2006, 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 206 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1IraqIRQWestern Asia63.72695
2LibyaLBYNorthern Africa62.29123
3Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa53.93252
4Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa53.31476
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia51.78200
6TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia51.47808
7Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia50.75607
8OmanOMNWestern Asia44.59725
9AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia41.47026
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa40.75344
11YemenYEMWestern Asia40.49877
12QatarQATWestern Asia39.11193
13GabonGABMiddle Africa37.65597
14BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia37.40659
15IranIRNSouthern Asia34.77913
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa34.25991
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa34.19132
18Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa30.85329
19KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia28.79046
20MongoliaMNGEastern Asia28.42560
21VenezuelaVENSouth America28.07747
22Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia27.40263
23United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia27.20521
24MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa25.62382
25UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia25.54916

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Iraq63.72695
  2. 2Libya62.29123
  3. 3Equatorial Guinea53.93252
  4. 4Republic of the Congo53.31476
  5. 5Kuwait51.78200

Lowest

  1. 187Tuvalushared0.00000
  2. 187San Marinoshared0.00000
  3. 187Palestineshared0.00000
  4. 187Puerto Ricoshared0.00000
  5. 187Palaushared0.00000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.82838. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 205 in both
  • 133 · 53rose · fell
  • 19unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cayman Islands

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 2006.

  • 187 distinct values among 206

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 20 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 206 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 (2006). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2006

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006?

Iraq, at 63.72695, of the 206 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006 cover?

206.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2006?

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), 2006 the newest?

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

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