Based on a comparison of 97 countries in 2020, East Timor ranked the highest in natural gas rents as a percentage of GDP with 28.6% followed by Turkmenistan and Brunei. On the other end of the scale was Belgium with < 0.001%, France with < 0.001% and Moldova with < 0.001%.
Average natural gas rents as a percentage of GDP reached 0.172% in 2020 in the World according to EIA. This is 31.7 % less than in the previous year and -43.2 % less than 10 years ago.
Historically, average natural gas rents as a percentage of GDP reached an all time high of 0.690% in 1979 and an all time low of 0.007% in 1970. The average annual growth amounted to 6.63 % since 1970.
Data for more countries are available at Natural Gas Rents (As % of GDP) indicator page.
| Natural Gas Rents (As % of GDP) | Unit | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
| Azerbaijan | % | 2.29% | 1.88% | 2.22% | 3.28% | 2.78% | ||||||||||||||||
| Brunei | % | 11.2% | 9.01% | 8.76% | 11.4% | 11.8% | ||||||||||||||||
| East Timor | % | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 54.9% | 31.7% | 31.4% | 48.1% | 32.2% | ||||||||||
| Equatorial Guinea | % | ... | ... | 3.97% | 3.33% | 3.93% | 5.43% | 4.67% | ||||||||||||||
| Iran | % | 2.63% | 1.92% | 2.34% | 5.81% | 6.82% | ||||||||||||||||
| Malaysia | % | 2.77% | 2.02% | 2.06% | 2.61% | 2.56% | ||||||||||||||||
| Mozambique | % | 2.14% | 1.97% | 2.16% | 3.04% | 2.70% | ||||||||||||||||
| Myanmar | % | 3.16% | 2.61% | 2.59% | 3.25% | 3.23% | ||||||||||||||||
| Norway | % | 1.96% | 1.21% | 1.66% | 2.37% | 1.69% | ||||||||||||||||
| Papua New Guinea | % | 6.25% | 5.10% | 5.09% | 6.33% | 7.07% | ||||||||||||||||
| Qatar | % | 6.03% | 4.82% | 5.36% | 7.71% | 7.87% | ||||||||||||||||
| Russia | % | 2.50% | 1.64% | 1.97% | 3.18% | 2.19% | ||||||||||||||||
| Trinidad and Tobago | % | 5.24% | 2.24% | 3.01% | 7.50% | 8.24% | ||||||||||||||||
| Turkmenistan | % | 10.6% | 6.00% | 7.46% | 11.5% | 7.65% | ... | ... | ||||||||||||||
| Uzbekistan | % | 3.58% | 2.12% | 4.10% | 8.44% | 5.07% |
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