Botswana vs Bulgaria: Total natural resource rents

Botswana
1.0%
in 2021
Bulgaria
0.9%
in 2021
Botswana rank
119th
Bulgaria rank
121st

Total natural resource rents over time

  • Botswana
  • Bulgaria
02468197019952021

How they compare

Botswana currently reports 1.0% against 0.9% in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.1%.

That makes Botswana's figure about 1.1 times Bulgaria's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 42 shared years of data; in 1980 it was Botswana ahead.

Botswana ranks 119th and Bulgaria ranks 121st of 211 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Total natural resource rents
Unit
% of GDP
Source
The Changing Wealth of Nations, World Bank staff estimates, via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
211 places, 9,209 data points, 1970–2021
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Natural resources rents are estimated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents, mineral rents, and forest rents.