It's interesting to look at the map of the world's natural resources. It turns out that when calculating the total value of all reserves, the richest country in terms of resources is Russia with an impressive $75 trillion. This is even more than the United States, which ranks second with $45 trillion.

But if you look further down the list, you can see an interesting distribution. Saudi Arabia and Canada are almost neck and neck — $34 and $33 trillion respectively. Then Iran with $27 trillion. Despite the size of its economy, China has $23 trillion, and Brazil has $22 trillion.

Also in the top 10 are Australia with ($20 trillion, Iraq with )( trillion, and Venezuela with $16 ) trillion. It turns out that natural resource wealth is distributed quite differently from how we usually think about the global economy. Countries considered the wealthiest in resources do not always lead in development and prosperity — many other factors come into play here.