Algeria | Oil rents (% of GDP)

Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at regional prices and total costs of production. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Records
63
Source
Algeria | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 7.16190013
1971 6.99097753
1972 9.01389998
1973 10.8416352
1974 27.71992279
1975 22.63327257
1976 23.71997373
1977 23.16413925
1978 20.12033262
1979 36.9394488
1980 30.41696677
1981 24.51404166
1982 18.334834
1983 16.53575127
1984 15.44905123
1985 14.28277952
1986 5.8702854
1987 8.53318725
1988 8.00223017
1989 12.56891483
1990 15.79697334
1991 13.54176563
1992 13.04522677
1993 11.71643606
1994 12.68652252
1995 14.17748132
1996 16.3135924
1997 14.79013496
1998 9.01756332
1999 12.95566738
2000 20.20389451
2001 16.71977136
2002 17.70370677
2003 19.67863267
2004 22.12697333
2005 27.91411415
2006 29.53439355
2007 27.92670877
2008 29.10864013
2009 19.90462637
2010 21.99399932
2011 25.02600961
2012 22.6025383
2013 20.87243139
2014 19.31672947
2015 11.74590319
2016 10.02621891
2017 12.15657413
2018 15.94280818
2019 14.14210315
2020 9.0384138
2021 14.46156546
2022

Algeria | Oil rents (% of GDP)

Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at regional prices and total costs of production. Development relevance: Accounting for the contribution of natural resources to economic output is important in building an analytical framework for sustainable development. In some countries earnings from natural resources, especially from fossil fuels and minerals, account for a sizable share of GDP, and much of these earnings come in the form of economic rents - revenues above the cost of extracting the resources. Natural resources give rise to economic rents because they are not produced. For produced goods and services competitive forces expand supply until economic profits are driven to zero, but natural resources in fixed supply often command returns well in excess of their cost of production. Rents from nonrenewable resources - fossil fuels and minerals - as well as rents from overharvesting of forests indicate the liquidation of a country's capital stock. When countries use such rents to support current consumption rather than to invest in new capital to replace what is being used up, they are, in effect, borrowing against their future. Statistical concept and methodology: The estimates of natural resources rents are calculated as the difference between the price of a commodity and the average cost of producing it. This is done by estimating the price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs. These unit rents are then multiplied by the physical quantities countries extract or harvest to determine the rents for each commodity as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Records
63
Source