While ResourceData.org is primarily a portal for finding data on the extractive industry, NRGI will also host introductory analyses and visualizations here to to spark interest in the datasets available on the site.
Combining data from three South American countries, this visual analysis looks at the relationship, or lack thereof, between the value of natural resource produced in a country and how much a government collects in revenue from that production.
Using data sourced by local partners, government spending and oil revenues are compared over Azerbaijan's seven year oil boom. In six years, the state oil fund saw a 2,500 percent increase in revenues followed by an 85 percent drop from that peak just five years later.
