The Natural resources They are indispensable for the life and existence of the human species, therefore, the different governments worldwide have put an economic value to some portions of these.
Thus, based on the price of what all reserves of this type of resources could cost, such as Oil, gold, copper, coal, iron, among others, countries have positioned themselves globally.
In other words, with these resources, different types of products can be made such as gasoline, diesel; jewelry (in the case of gold and silver) of luxury that can be sold at high prices; With natural gas, for example, it is cooked in many parts of the world, water, having air conditioning, among many other uses.
That said, according to a ranking of the ‘top’ 10 of the countries with the greatest wealth based on the natural resources that each possessesnations such as Russia, Canada or Saudi Arabia stand out.
The data were collected by statista and are measured in billion dollars:
1. Russia, (75 billion dollars): It has large amounts coal, natural gas, oil, gold, wood and rare earth metals.
2nd United States (45 billion dollars): They have abundance in coal, wood, natural gas, gold and copper.
3. Saudi Arabia (34 billion dollars): It is a power in oil and wood.
4. Canada (33 billion dollars): It has large reserves of oil, uranium, wood, natural gas and phosphate.
5. Iran (27 in billion dollars): dominated by oil and natural gas reserves.
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6. China (23 billion dollars): coal home, rare earth metals and wood.
7. Brazil (22 billion dollars): full of gold, uranium, iron, wood and oil.
8. Australia (20 billion dollars): blessed with coal, wood, copper, iron mineral, gold and uranium.
9. Iraq (16 billion dollars): driven by oil and phosphoric rock.
10. Venezuela (14 billion dollars): known for iron, natural gas and oil.
Valentina Delgadillo Abello
Portfolio journalist
