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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976

1976, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976 covers 132 countries. Brunei is highest, at 69.554; 10 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 3.426. Against 1975, 122 values changed (54 up, 68 down), 1 country joined.

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Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP) · Data for 1976

HighestBrunei

69.554

Lowest10 countries share it

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976, 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 132 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia69.554
2KuwaitKWTWestern Asia64.450
3QatarQATWestern Asia58.672
4OmanOMNWestern Asia56.075
5IraqIRQWestern Asia53.408
6Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia53.061
7United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia37.026
8IranIRNSouthern Asia33.888
9MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia29.325
10Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean26.197
11AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa24.673
12VenezuelaVENSouth America22.993
13GabonGABMiddle Africa22.957
14MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia21.263
15GuyanaGUYSouth America20.892
16Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa19.743
17Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia19.731
18IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia17.727
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa17.686
20SurinameSURSouth America17.317
21ZambiaZMBEastern Africa16.229
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa15.188
23New CaledoniaNCLMelanesia14.988
24MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa13.046
25ChileCHLSouth America12.898

02In 1976

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brunei69.554
  2. 2Kuwait64.450
  3. 3Qatar58.672
  4. 4Oman56.075
  5. 5Iraq53.408

Lowest

  1. 123Seychellesshared0.000
  2. 123Sudanshared0.000
  3. 123Puerto Ricoshared0.000
  4. 123Maltashared0.000
  5. 123Monacoshared0.000

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 3.426. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031975 → 1976

Since 1975

What changed between 1975 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 122values changed, of 131 in both
  • 54 · 68rose · fell
  • 9unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Gabon32.260 → 22.957−9.303
  • Iraq59.572 → 53.408−6.164
  • Qatar63.723 → 58.672−5.051
  • Morocco8.011 → 3.258−4.753
  • Togo15.489 → 11.066−4.423
+ Mauritius

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.

The site’s method

  • 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 1976.

  • 123 distinct values among 132

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 17 decimals. 10 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 132 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1976). Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976 [data set], describing 1976. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/natural-resources-rents/1976

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07Questions

Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976: questions and answers

Which country has the highest natural resource rents in Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976?

Brunei, at 69.554, of the 132 countries in the file.

What year does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976 describe?

1976.

How many countries does Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976 cover?

132.

Where can I download Total Natural Resources Rents (% of GDP), 1976?

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), 1976 the newest?

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

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