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 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Azerbaijan | % | 2.37% | 2.36% | 2.01% | 2.79% | 3.87% | ||||||||||||||||
| Brunei | % | 6.43% | 11.0% | 7.69% | 8.99% | 14.4% | ||||||||||||||||
| East Timor | % | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 15.6% | 57.3% | 28.9% | 30.6% | 57.0% | ... | ||||||||
| Equatorial Guinea | % | ... | ... | 4.60% | 4.35% | 2.55% | 3.63% | 5.43% | ||||||||||||||
| Iran | % | 3.69% | 2.69% | 1.46% | 1.69% | 3.98% | ||||||||||||||||
| Malaysia | % | 2.04% | 2.89% | 1.84% | 2.01% | 3.18% | ||||||||||||||||
| Mozambique | % | 3.93% | 2.93% | 2.14% | 2.82% | 4.38% | ||||||||||||||||
| Myanmar | % | 2.50% | 3.45% | 2.19% | 2.37% | 3.73% | ||||||||||||||||
| Norway | % | 2.22% | 2.12% | 1.38% | 2.09% | 2.80% | ||||||||||||||||
| Papua New Guinea | % | 2.04% | 5.35% | 4.00% | 4.21% | 6.46% | ||||||||||||||||
| Qatar | % | 7.50% | 6.12% | 3.50% | 3.72% | 4.66% | ||||||||||||||||
| Russia | % | 2.69% | 2.80% | 1.87% | 2.55% | 3.69% | ||||||||||||||||
| Trinidad and Tobago | % | 6.84% | 4.49% | 2.63% | 3.74% | 6.32% | ||||||||||||||||
| Turkmenistan | % | 14.1% | 12.3% | 7.27% | 9.92% | 14.5% | ... | |||||||||||||||
| Uzbekistan | % | 6.56% | 4.05% | 2.45% | 5.23% | 9.56% |
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