Since the very dawn of humanity, the possession of natural resources has claimed an important participation in the debate, elements such as the accumulation of precious metals, the government of nature, market freedom, government intervention in the economy, the impacts of these situations, the participation of academia in the investigation of these phenomena as contributors to the welfare of their inhabitants is necessary. Thus, it is decided to investigate the contribution of natural resource rents to the GDP per capita for two nations that are producers of this type of resources, Norway and Angola, in a 2011-2020 window within the framework of a model that aims to find a useful regression coefficient to forecast the behavior of the two variables for the model in the case of Norway, In the case of Angola, which registered a weak Pearson correlation and a negative Spearman correlation compared to its Nordic peer, there is linearity and correlations in the relationship between natural resource rents and GDP per capita.