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
7.16190013 1970
6.99097753 1971
9.01389998 1972
10.8416352 1973
27.71992279 1974
22.63327257 1975
23.71997373 1976
23.16413925 1977
20.12033262 1978
36.9394488 1979
30.41696677 1980
24.51404166 1981
18.334834 1982
16.53575127 1983
15.44905123 1984
14.28277952 1985
5.8702854 1986
8.53318725 1987
8.00223017 1988
12.56891483 1989
15.79697334 1990
13.54176563 1991
13.04522677 1992
11.71643606 1993
12.68652252 1994
14.17748132 1995
16.3135924 1996
14.79013496 1997
9.01756332 1998
12.95566738 1999
20.20389451 2000
16.71977136 2001
17.70370677 2002
19.67863267 2003
22.12697333 2004
27.91411415 2005
29.53439355 2006
27.92670877 2007
29.10864013 2008
19.90462637 2009
21.99399932 2010
25.02600961 2011
22.6025383 2012
20.87243139 2013
19.31672947 2014
11.74590319 2015
10.02621891 2016
12.15657413 2017
15.94280818 2018
14.14210315 2019
9.0384138 2020
14.46156546 2021
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