Oil rents (% of GDP)
- World average (population-weighted)
- 1.8 %
- across 190 countries, 2021
- Latest observation
- 2021
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- 0.0 % – 0.0 %
- 0.0 % – 0.0 %
- 0.0 % – 0.3 %
- 0.3 % – 2.2 %
- 2.2 % – 56.4 %
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
Not enough countries to aggregate this indicator for World.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2021.
Highest 5
- 56.4 %
- 2Iraq42.8 %
- 34.4 %
- 28.3 %
- 23.7 %
Source: World Bank — WDI · NY.GDP.PETR.RT.ZS
Lowest 5
- 186Sierra Leone0.0 %
- 187Cyprus0.0 %
- 188Saint Lucia0.0 %
- 189Uganda0.0 %
- 190Vanuatu0.0 %
Source: World Bank — WDI · NY.GDP.PETR.RT.ZS
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Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- % of GDP (% GDP)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · No direction
- Valid range
- 0 – 100
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source200 countries · 8,418 obs. · → 2021 · CC BY 4.0
Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at regional prices and total costs of production. Source: The Changing Wealth of Nations, World Bank (WB), uri: https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/changing-wealth-of-nations/data, note: World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in the World Bank's The Changing Wealth of Nations., publisher: World Bank (WB); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB), note: World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in the World Bank's The Changing Wealth of Nations.
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
28 of 218 countries have no value for 2021.
- Yemen
- Venezuela
- North Korea
- Syria
- Taiwan
- South Sudan
- Cuba
- Turkmenistan
- Kuwait
- Eritrea
- Channel Islands
- Curaçao
- Micronesia
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Isle of Man
- Andorra
- Greenland
- Sint Maarten
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Liechtenstein
- Gibraltar
- British Virgin Islands
- Monaco
- Marshall Islands
- 4 more
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=oil-rents-pct-gdp" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'