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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021

2021, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021 covers 197 countries. Libya is highest, at 61.0347; 18 countries share the lowest reading, 0.0000. The middle country reads 1.7076. Against 2020, 179 values changed (129 up, 50 down), 7 left.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 2021

HighestLibya

61.0347

Lowest18 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), 2021, 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 197 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1LibyaLBYNorthern Africa61.0347
2IraqIRQWestern Asia43.4459
3DR CongoCODMiddle Africa38.8273
4Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa37.7125
5ZambiaZMBEastern Africa35.2641
6Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia34.7297
7GuyanaGUYSouth America33.6833
8MongoliaMNGEastern Asia33.1372
9IranIRNSouthern Asia30.4481
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa29.9674
11AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia29.9384
12OmanOMNWestern Asia29.2116
13Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia27.3867
14QatarQATWestern Asia27.2898
15KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia26.8423
16Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia25.5652
17BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia24.2800
18Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa23.5001
19AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa22.5903
20LiberiaLBRWestern Africa21.9156
21ChadTCDMiddle Africa21.3429
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia20.4652
23Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa20.1354
24RussiaRUSEastern Europe18.5109
25GabonGABMiddle Africa18.4933

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Libya61.0347
  2. 2Iraq43.4459
  3. 3DR Congo38.8273
  4. 4Republic of the Congo37.7125
  5. 5Zambia35.2641

Lowest

  1. 180Tuvalushared0.0000
  2. 180Palestineshared0.0000
  3. 180Puerto Ricoshared0.0000
  4. 180Palaushared0.0000
  5. 180Naurushared0.0000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 1.7076. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −7countries joined / left
  • 179values changed, of 197 in both
  • 129 · 50rose · fell
  • 18unchanged

Rose most

  • Libya11.4790 → 61.0347+49.5557
  • DR Congo15.9282 → 38.8273+22.8991
  • Guyana13.8985 → 33.6833+19.7847
  • Mongolia13.4737 → 33.1372+19.6635
  • Zambia16.2222 → 35.2641+19.0419

Fell most

− Cuba− Greenland− Kuwait− Liechtenstein− San Marino− Syria− United States Virgin Islands

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 2021.

  • 180 distinct values among 197

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 18 decimals. 18 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 197 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 (2021). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/2021

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021?

Libya, at 61.0347, of the 197 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021 cover?

197.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 2021?

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), 2021 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-06, when it was read from the publisher.

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