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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015

2015, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015 covers 210 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 79.4309; 23 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 1.2456. Against 2014, 186 values changed (33 up, 153 down), 1 country joined, 2 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2015

HighestTimor-Leste

79.4309

Lowest23 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), 2015, 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 210 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia79.4309
2IraqIRQWestern Asia37.5037
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia37.3136
4Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia24.8553
5OmanOMNWestern Asia21.0999
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa20.1094
7Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa19.8714
8LiberiaLBRWestern Africa19.4463
9QatarQATWestern Asia19.0641
10BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia18.8983
11SomaliaSOMEastern Africa18.8762
12Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa17.5005
13Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia16.6665
14LibyaLBYNorthern Africa16.3922
15Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa15.8857
16BurundiBDIEastern Africa15.5345
17TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia15.4828
18IranIRNSouthern Asia15.2303
19AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa14.9253
20AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia14.4440
21GuineaGINWestern Africa14.1139
22United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia14.0468
23AngolaAGOMiddle Africa13.3057
24South SudanSSDEastern Africa13.0532
25Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia12.7385

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste79.4309
  2. 2Iraq37.5037
  3. 3Kuwait37.3136
  4. 4Saudi Arabia24.8553
  5. 5Oman21.0999

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 1.2456. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −2countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 209 in both
  • 33 · 153rose · fell
  • 23unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Timor-Leste− Saint Martin− Venezuela

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 2015.

  • 188 distinct values among 210

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 23 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 210 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 (2015). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2015

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015?

Timor-Leste, at 79.4309, of the 210 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015 cover?

210.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2015?

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), 2015 the newest?

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

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