Table 2-4 Oil Revenues 1972-1998 and as Percentages of Export Earnings and Government Revenues, 1997

Oil Export Revenues

As percentages

(current billion $)

(constant 1990 billion $)

of 1997 revenues

1997

1998 est.

1972

1980

1986

1998

Export

Government

Bahrain

52%

59%

Kuwait

11.8

7.9

8.5

28.8

7.1

6.4

85%

81%

Oman

29%

74%

Qatar

4.0

3.0

1.4

8.5

1.6

2.4

60%

57%

Saudi Arabia

45.5

29.4

14.5

162.7

21.4

23.6

90%

a

75%

UAE

13.7

9.3

3.3

29.9

6.8

7.5

38%

70%

Algeria

7.5

4.9

4.2

20.2

4.8

3.9

96%

62%

Egypt

1.7

0.8

43%

Iran

15.7

10.2

12.9

20.9

6.7

8.1

79%

55%

Iraq

4.2

6.1

4.5

43.6

8

4.9

Libya

9.0

5.8

9.1

35.3

5.5

4.6

95%

Syria

2.5

b

63%

b

38%

Tunisia

0.5

9%

8%

Yemen

1.4

b

95%

b

68%

a. 1996

b. 1995

Sources: Feld and MacIntyre (1998), Page (1999), WDI 1999.

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