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Resource rents by country

Total natural resources rents (% of GDP) · % of GDP · 197 countries ranked · 2021

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  1. 1LibyaWorld rank 1st of 197
    up +49.6 pts
  2. 2IraqWorld rank 2nd of 197
    up +16.0 pts
  3. 3DR CongoWorld rank 3rd of 197
    up +22.9 pts
  4. 4Republic of the CongoWorld rank 4th of 197
    up +11.5 pts
  5. 5ZambiaWorld rank 5th of 197
    up +19.0 pts
  6. 6Timor-LesteWorld rank 6th of 197
    up +0.3 pts
  7. 7GuyanaWorld rank 7th of 197
    up +19.8 pts
  8. 8MongoliaWorld rank 8th of 197
    up +19.7 pts
  9. 9IranWorld rank 9th of 197
    up +7.2 pts
  10. 10AngolaWorld rank 10th of 197
    up +9.7 pts
  11. 11AzerbaijanWorld rank 11th of 197
    up +16.9 pts
  12. 12OmanWorld rank 12th of 197
    up +10.3 pts
  13. 13Papua New GuineaWorld rank 13th of 197
    up +15.4 pts
  14. 14QatarWorld rank 14th of 197
    up +7.1 pts
  15. 15KazakhstanWorld rank 15th of 197
    up +14.0 pts
  16. 16Saudi ArabiaWorld rank 16th of 197
    up +8.2 pts
  17. 17BruneiWorld rank 17th of 197
    up +10.5 pts
  18. 18Equatorial GuineaWorld rank 18th of 197
    up +6.8 pts
  19. 19AlgeriaWorld rank 19th of 197
    up +8.6 pts
  20. 20LiberiaWorld rank 20th of 197
    up +4.4 pts
  21. 21ChadWorld rank 21st of 197
    up +7.4 pts
  22. 22UzbekistanWorld rank 22nd of 197
    up +11.4 pts
  23. 23Burkina FasoWorld rank 23rd of 197
    up +11.0 pts
  24. 24RussiaWorld rank 24th of 197
    up +10.9 pts
  25. 25GabonWorld rank 25th of 197
    up +5.0 pts

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Resource rents, 2021. Quantile classes; hatched = no data.

Total natural resources rents (% of GDP), 2021World map of Total natural resources rents (% of GDP) (2021) for 197 countries, from 0.0 % to 61.0 %.Fiji: 2.3 %Tanzania: 6.7 %W. Sahara: —Canada: 4.9 %United States: 1.3 %Kazakhstan: 26.8 %Uzbekistan: 20.5 %Papua New Guinea: 27.4 %Indonesia: 5.2 %Argentina: 2.7 %Chile: 16.9 %DR Congo: 38.8 %Somalia: 11.2 %Kenya: 1.2 %Sudan: 12.8 %Chad: 21.3 %Haiti: 0.3 %Dominican Republic: 2.1 %Russia: 18.5 %Bahamas: 0.0 %Falkland Is.: —Norway: 10.0 %Greenland: —Fr. S. Antarctic Lands: —Timor-Leste: 34.7 %South Africa: 7.3 %Lesotho: 4.3 %Mexico: 3.6 %Uruguay: 1.9 %Brazil: 7.9 %Bolivia: 9.5 %Peru: 12.7 %Colombia: 5.3 %Panama: 3.7 %Costa Rica: 0.8 %Nicaragua: 3.8 %Honduras: 1.2 %El Salvador: 0.5 %Guatemala: 1.9 %Belize: 0.5 %Venezuela: —Guyana: 33.7 %Suriname: 9.6 %France: 0.0 %Ecuador: 6.7 %Puerto Rico: 0.0 %Jamaica: 0.5 %Cuba: —Zimbabwe: 6.4 %Botswana: 1.0 %Namibia: 4.0 %Senegal: 4.4 %Mali: 18.4 %Mauritania: 11.4 %Benin: 2.3 %Niger: 6.4 %Nigeria: 8.6 %Cameroon: 5.5 %Togo: 7.9 %Ghana: 13.3 %Côte d'Ivoire: 4.7 %Guinea: 4.5 %Guinea-Bissau: 10.4 %Liberia: 21.9 %Sierra Leone: 9.0 %Burkina Faso: 20.1 %Central African Republic: 10.3 %Republic of the Congo: 37.7 %Gabon: 18.5 %Equatorial Guinea: 23.5 %Zambia: 35.3 %Malawi: 4.2 %Mozambique: 14.9 %Eswatini: 3.0 %Angola: 30.0 %Burundi: 14.0 %Israel: 0.4 %Lebanon: 0.0 %Madagascar: 5.5 %Palestine: 0.0 %Gambia: 2.9 %Tunisia: 2.2 %Algeria: 22.6 %Jordan: 0.1 %United Arab Emirates: 17.6 %Qatar: 27.3 %Kuwait: —Iraq: 43.4 %Oman: 29.2 %Vanuatu: 0.6 %Cambodia: 0.8 %Thailand: 1.8 %Laos: 5.4 %Myanmar: 8.7 %Vietnam: 2.5 %North Korea: —South Korea: 0.0 %Mongolia: 33.1 %India: 3.2 %Bangladesh: 0.6 %Bhutan: 2.7 %Nepal: 0.5 %Pakistan: 1.4 %Afghanistan: 0.4 %Tajikistan: 9.0 %Kyrgyzstan: 11.5 %Turkmenistan: —Iran: 30.4 %Syria: —Armenia: 7.1 %Sweden: 1.2 %Belarus: 1.9 %Ukraine: 7.5 %Poland: 1.0 %Austria: 0.1 %Hungary: 0.4 %Moldova: 0.2 %Romania: 1.1 %Lithuania: 0.3 %Latvia: 1.2 %Estonia: 1.7 %Germany: 0.1 %Bulgaria: 0.9 %Greece: 0.1 %Türkiye: 0.8 %Albania: 1.4 %Croatia: 0.7 %Switzerland: 0.0 %Luxembourg: 0.0 %Belgium: 0.0 %Netherlands: 0.3 %Portugal: 0.3 %Spain: 0.1 %Ireland: 0.1 %New Caledonia: 16.8 %Solomon Islands: 18.4 %New Zealand: 1.5 %Australia: 13.4 %Sri Lanka: 0.1 %China: 1.7 %Taiwan: —Italy: 0.1 %Denmark: 0.3 %United Kingdom: 0.6 %Iceland: 0.0 %Azerbaijan: 29.9 %Georgia: 1.4 %Philippines: 2.0 %Malaysia: 6.9 %Brunei: 24.3 %Slovenia: 0.2 %Finland: 0.4 %Slovakia: 0.2 %Czechia: 0.4 %Eritrea: —Japan: 0.0 %Paraguay: 1.3 %Yemen: —Saudi Arabia: 25.6 %N. Cyprus: —Cyprus: 0.0 %Morocco: 0.4 %Egypt: 5.1 %Libya: 61.0 %Ethiopia: 5.9 %Djibouti: 0.3 %Somaliland: —Uganda: 7.5 %Rwanda: 4.0 %Bosnia and Herzegovina: 0.8 %North Macedonia: 0.1 %Serbia: 1.7 %Montenegro: 0.6 %Kosovo: 0.9 %Trinidad and Tobago: 7.9 %South Sudan: —
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Position in the world ranking by year, up to 5 countries. Rank 1 is at the top.

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Rank by year for Libya, Iraq, DR Congo, 2000–2024.