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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008

2008, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008 covers 207 countries. Libya is highest, at 66.0599; 19 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.3627. Against 2007, 186 values changed (134 up, 52 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2008

HighestLibya

66.0599

Lowest19 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), 2008, 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 207 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LibyaLBYNorthern Africa66.0599
2South SudanSSDEastern Africa58.2777
3TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia56.9659
4IraqIRQWestern Asia55.6857
5Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia55.0244
6KuwaitKWTWestern Asia53.4605
7Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa52.6445
8AngolaAGOMiddle Africa52.5608
9Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa49.2058
10Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa46.4379
11AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia43.0407
12GabonGABMiddle Africa41.0681
13OmanOMNWestern Asia40.5020
14MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa38.3955
15QatarQATWestern Asia36.9280
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa33.9196
17YemenYEMWestern Asia33.8694
18IranIRNSouthern Asia33.5228
19KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia33.2480
20BurundiBDIEastern Africa33.0482
21AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa32.8651
22BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia31.9745
23MongoliaMNGEastern Asia30.7371
24UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia30.0514
25DR CongoCODMiddle Africa28.4584

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Libya66.0599
  2. 2South Sudan58.2777
  3. 3Turkmenistan56.9659
  4. 4Iraq55.6857
  5. 5Saudi Arabia55.0244

Lowest

  1. 189Tuvalushared0.0000
  2. 189San Marinoshared0.0000
  3. 189Palestineshared0.0000
  4. 189Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  5. 189Palaushared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.3627. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 205 in both
  • 134 · 52rose · fell
  • 19unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ South Sudan+ Kosovo− Channel 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 2008.

  • 189 distinct values among 207

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 17 decimals. 19 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 207 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 (2008). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2008

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008?

Libya, at 66.0599, of the 207 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008 cover?

207.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2008?

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), 2008 the newest?

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

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