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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012

2012, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012 covers 208 countries. Libya is highest, at 59.1030; 21 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 2.0001. Against 2011, 187 values changed (45 up, 142 down), 2 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2012

HighestLibya

59.1030

Lowest21 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), 2012, 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 208 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LibyaLBYNorthern Africa59.1030
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia58.1449
3IraqIRQWestern Asia49.8510
4Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia48.5007
5Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa41.3573
6GabonGABMiddle Africa40.6293
7OmanOMNWestern Asia40.4419
8Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa39.0028
9QatarQATWestern Asia35.1062
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa34.7310
11TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia30.8737
12SurinameSURSouth America29.1298
13AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia29.0120
14United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia28.2145
15DR CongoCODMiddle Africa27.1230
16LiberiaLBRWestern Africa26.7116
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa26.2525
18BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia25.2093
19Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa25.0558
20ChadTCDMiddle Africa24.7934
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia23.5822
22MongoliaMNGEastern Asia22.2730
23KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia21.9827
24MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa21.4879
25IranIRNSouthern Asia21.1187

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Libya59.1030
  2. 2Kuwait58.1449
  3. 3Iraq49.8510
  4. 4Saudi Arabia48.5007
  5. 5Republic of the Congo41.3573

Lowest

  1. 188Tuvalushared0.0000
  2. 188Sint Maartenshared0.0000
  3. 188San Marinoshared0.0000
  4. 188Palestineshared0.0000
  5. 188Puerto Ricoshared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 2.0001. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 208 in both
  • 45 · 142rose · fell
  • 21unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Eritrea− Saint Martin

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 2012.

  • 188 distinct values among 208

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 21 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 208 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 (2012). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2012

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012?

Libya, at 59.1030, of the 208 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012 cover?

208.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2012?

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), 2012 the newest?

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

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