Cameroon vs Ethiopia: Total natural resource rents

Cameroon
5.5%
in 2021
Ethiopia
5.9%
in 2021
Cameroon rank
71st
Ethiopia rank
69th

Total natural resource rents over time

  • Cameroon
  • Ethiopia
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How they compare

Ethiopia currently reports 5.9% against 5.5% in Cameroon, a difference of 0.3%.

That makes Ethiopia's figure about 1.1 times Cameroon's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 41 shared years of data; in 1981 it was Ethiopia ahead.

Cameroon ranks 71st and Ethiopia ranks 69th 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.