| Country | Natural resources |
| Spratly Islands | fish, guano, undetermined oil and natural gas potential |
| Sri Lanka | limestone, graphite, mineral sands, gems, phosphates, clay, hydropower |
| Sudan | petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold, hydropower |
| Suriname | timber, hydropower, fish, kaolin, shrimp, bauxite, gold, and small amounts of nickel, copper, platinum, iron ore |
| Svalbard | coal, iron ore, copper, zinc, phosphate, wildlife, fish |
| Swaziland | asbestos, coal, clay, cassiterite, hydropower, forests, small gold and diamond deposits, quarry stone, and talc |
| Sweden | iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower |
| Switzerland | hydropower potential, timber, salt |
| Syria | petroleum, phosphates, chrome and manganese ores, asphalt, iron ore, rock salt, marble, gypsum, hydropower |
| Taiwan | small deposits of coal, natural gas, limestone, marble, and asbestos |
| Tajikistan | hydropower, some petroleum, uranium, mercury, brown coal, lead, zinc, antimony, tungsten, silver, gold |
| Tanzania | hydropower, tin, phosphates, iron ore, coal, diamonds, gemstones, gold, natural gas, nickel |
| Thailand | tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, arable land |
| Timor-Leste | gold, petroleum, natural gas, manganese, marble |
| Togo | phosphates, limestone, marble, arable land |
| Tokelau | NEGL |
| Tonga | fish, fertile soil |
| Trinidad and Tobago | petroleum, natural gas, asphalt |
| Tunisia | petroleum, phosphates, iron ore, lead, zinc, salt |
| Turkey | coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), clay, arable land, hydropower |
| Turkmenistan | petroleum, natural gas, sulfur, salt |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | spiny lobster, conch |
| Tuvalu | fish |
| Uganda | copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, arable land |
| Ukraine | iron ore, coal, manganese, natural gas, oil, salt, sulfur, graphite, titanium, magnesium, kaolin, nickel, mercury, timber, arable land |
| United Arab Emirates | petroleum, natural gas |
| United Kingdom | coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, arable land |
| United States | coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber |
| United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges | terrestrial and aquatic wildlife |
| Uruguay | arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fisheries |
| Uzbekistan | natural gas, petroleum, coal, gold, uranium, silver, copper, lead and zinc, tungsten, molybdenum |
| Vanuatu | manganese, hardwood forests, fish |
| Venezuela | petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, bauxite, other minerals, hydropower, diamonds |
| Vietnam | phosphates, coal, manganese, bauxite, chromate, offshore oil and gas deposits, forests, hydropower |
| Virgin Islands | sun, sand, sea, surf |
| Wake Island | none |
| Wallis and Futuna | NEGL |
| West Bank | arable land |
| Western Sahara | phosphates, iron ore |
| World | the rapid depletion of nonrenewable mineral resources, the depletion of forest areas and wetlands, the extinction of animal and plant species, and the deterioration in air and water quality (especially in Eastern Europe, the former USSR, and China) pose serious long-term problems that governments and peoples are only beginning to address |
| Yemen | petroleum, fish, rock salt, marble; small deposits of coal, gold, lead, nickel, and copper; fertile soil in west |
| Zambia | copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds, gold, silver, uranium, hydropower |
| Zimbabwe | coal, chromium ore, asbestos, gold, nickel, copper, iron ore, vanadium, lithium, tin, platinum group metals |
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