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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016

2016, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016 covers 209 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 44.555616; 23 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000000. The middle country reads 1.058481. Against 2015, 186 values changed (87 up, 99 down), 1 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2016

HighestTimor-Leste

44.555616

Lowest23 countries share it

0.000000

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), 2016, 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 209 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia44.555616
2IraqIRQWestern Asia33.218922
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia32.364126
4AngolaAGOMiddle Africa20.885120
5Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia20.734996
6DR CongoCODMiddle Africa20.572123
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa20.114362
8SomaliaSOMEastern Africa19.545451
9BurundiBDIEastern Africa19.101650
10Guinea-BissauGNBWestern Africa18.701505
11GuineaGINWestern Africa18.106364
12OmanOMNWestern Asia18.052777
13Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa17.000039
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa16.459965
15MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa16.313389
16GuyanaGUYSouth America16.089553
17QatarQATWestern Asia15.981768
18BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia15.673771
19SurinameSURSouth America15.061798
20AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia14.785402
21Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa14.673265
22Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia14.336840
23Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia14.300464
24IranIRNSouthern Asia13.135810
25ChadTCDMiddle Africa13.110061

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste44.555616
  2. 2Iraq33.218922
  3. 3Kuwait32.364126
  4. 4Angola20.885120
  5. 5Saudi Arabia20.734996

Lowest

  1. 187Tuvalushared0.000000
  2. 187Sint Maartenshared0.000000
  3. 187San Marinoshared0.000000
  4. 187Palestineshared0.000000
  5. 187Puerto Ricoshared0.000000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.058481. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −1countries joined / left
  • 186values changed, of 209 in both
  • 87 · 99rose · fell
  • 23unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Timor-Leste79.430949 → 44.555616−34.875333
  • Turkmenistan15.482787 → 9.657616−5.825171
  • Kuwait37.313600 → 32.364126−4.949474
  • Iraq37.503717 → 33.218922−4.284795
  • Libya16.392199 → 12.246865−4.145333
− South Sudan

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 2016.

  • 187 distinct values among 209

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 23 countries share 0.000000. 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 209 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 (2016). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2016

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016?

Timor-Leste, at 44.555616, of the 209 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016 cover?

209.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2016?

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), 2016 the newest?

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

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