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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020

2020, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020 covers 204 countries. Timor-Leste is highest, at 34.39330; 20 countries share the lowest reading, 0.00000. The middle country reads 1.10135. Against 2019, 184 values changed (80 up, 104 down), 3 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2020

HighestTimor-Leste

34.39330

Lowest20 countries share it

0.00000

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), 2020, 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 204 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia34.39330
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia29.28487
3IraqIRQWestern Asia27.41701
4Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa26.21813
5IranIRNSouthern Asia23.23917
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa20.24767
7QatarQATWestern Asia20.22596
8Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia19.19389
9OmanOMNWestern Asia18.88666
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa17.46617
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia17.31843
12Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa16.68160
13ZambiaZMBEastern Africa16.22223
14DR CongoCODMiddle Africa15.92820
15AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa14.03438
16ChadTCDMiddle Africa13.93309
17GuyanaGUYSouth America13.89854
18BurundiBDIEastern Africa13.84755
19BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia13.75245
20GabonGABMiddle Africa13.49882
21MongoliaMNGEastern Asia13.47369
22AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia13.00273
23KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia12.84070
24United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia11.97223
25Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia11.94173

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Timor-Leste34.39330
  2. 2Kuwait29.28487
  3. 3Iraq27.41701
  4. 4Republic of the Congo26.21813
  5. 5Iran23.23917

Lowest

  1. 185Tuvalushared0.00000
  2. 185San Marinoshared0.00000
  3. 185Palestineshared0.00000
  4. 185Puerto Ricoshared0.00000
  5. 185Palaushared0.00000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.10135. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −3countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 204 in both
  • 80 · 104rose · fell
  • 20unchanged

Rose most

  • Zambia7.91507 → 16.22223+8.30717
  • Guyana5.96250 → 13.89854+7.93605
  • Liberia14.26049 → 17.46617+3.20568
  • DR Congo12.75006 → 15.92820+3.17814
  • Chile2.56889 → 5.48717+2.91828

Fell most

− Isle of Man− Northern Mariana Islands− Turkmenistan

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 2020.

  • 185 distinct values among 204

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 20 countries share 0.00000. 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 204 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 (2020). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2020

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020?

Timor-Leste, at 34.39330, of the 204 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020 cover?

204.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2020?

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), 2020 the newest?

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

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