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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019

2019, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019 covers 207 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 44.895263; 22 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000000. The middle country reads 1.154381. Against 2018, 185 values changed (35 up, 150 down), 2 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2019

HighestTimor-Leste

44.895263

Lowest22 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), 2019, 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), 2019: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia44.895263
2IraqIRQWestern Asia40.609902
3KuwaitKWTWestern Asia39.838670
4Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa39.243039
5LibyaLBYNorthern Africa34.499028
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa28.897859
7IranIRNSouthern Asia27.800666
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia25.453168
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa25.437280
10OmanOMNWestern Asia24.980030
11AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia23.434905
12QatarQATWestern Asia22.373987
13BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia20.849318
14ChadTCDMiddle Africa19.649959
15GabonGABMiddle Africa19.175499
16Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia19.145353
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa18.523679
18KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia17.925974
19United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia16.895899
20MongoliaMNGEastern Asia14.773957
21LiberiaLBRWestern Africa14.260490
22Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia13.815204
23TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia13.492513
24BahrainBHRWestern Asia13.363784
25Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa13.161130

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste44.895263
  2. 2Iraq40.609902
  3. 3Kuwait39.838670
  4. 4Republic of the Congo39.243039
  5. 5Libya34.499028

Lowest

  1. 186Tuvalushared0.000000
  2. 186San Marinoshared0.000000
  3. 186Palestineshared0.000000
  4. 186Puerto Ricoshared0.000000
  5. 186Palaushared0.000000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.154381. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 207 in both
  • 35 · 150rose · fell
  • 22unchanged

Rose most

  • Libya31.616860 → 34.499028+2.882168
  • Kyrgyzstan4.670481 → 7.243202+2.572721
  • Sudan6.147706 → 8.259769+2.112063
  • Zimbabwe3.378189 → 4.715765+1.337576
  • Armenia1.098661 → 2.201002+1.102341

Fell most

− Sint Maarten− Yemen

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 2019.

  • 186 distinct values among 207

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 22 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 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 (2019). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2019

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019?

Timor-Leste, at 44.895263, of the 207 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019 cover?

207.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2019?

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), 2019 the newest?

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

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