top 10 countries with the highest natural resources in the world

 Their GDP as of 2011 was $691.5 billion. Nearly six million foreign workers are employed in the petroleum. The estimated value of Saudi Arabia’s natural resources is $4 trillion dollars. This country is the most important among the states in the Middle East and is at the heart of Muslim culture. Thanks to its richness I hydrocarbons, the operation and the industries in this country depends mostly on them. http://www.lifepersona.com

  1. Russia < coal, gold and timber> $45 trillion

The cost of natural resource is estimated to be $ 45trillion in 2017. 31.3% of the earth’s coal reserve and under the earth surface. Russia is the second largest reserve in the world. In 2005, the Russians economy benefited significantly from high oil, gas and metal prices. Oil revenue accounted for about 14% of the GDP. Following the mineral fuel industry, the next leading branch of the mineral industry, in terms of its contribution to the national economy was the metallurgical sector, which contributed 19% of the value of industrial production accounted for 11.1% of the value of industrial capital stock and employed the industrial labour force.

In 2005, a total of 1,071,000 people were employed in the mineral extraction sector and made up 1.6% of the country’s labour force. Investment in mineral extraction and metallurgy accounted for about 20% of total investment in the Russian economy. Russia’s mining companies generated a reported revenue of $8.26 billion and net profit of $2.53 billion.  http://www.investopodia.com

  1. united states < coal, gold, silver, timber, iron ore, oil and gas >

With about $45 trillion in natural resources, the US is the number one on this list. The US has over 31%of the world’s coal, but also has large amount of timber. A total of 89% of the country’s natural resources are from coal and timber, but it also has sizable deposits of natural gas, oil, gold and copper.

The sum of coal and wood sources in this country represent 89% of its natural resources. Similarly, this country is fortunate to have 750 million acres of land covered with forest, which is why it is a large timber producer. http://www.lifepersona.com