Bulgaria vs Romania: Total natural resource rents

Bulgaria
0.9%
in 2021
Romania
1.1%
in 2021
Bulgaria rank
121st
Romania rank
118th

Total natural resource rents over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Romania
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How they compare

Romania currently reports 1.1% against 0.9% in Bulgaria, a difference of 0.2%.

That makes Romania's figure about 1.2 times Bulgaria's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 35 shared years of data; in 1987 it was Romania ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 121st and Romania ranks 118th 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.