Algeria | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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 | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
7.89139762 1970
7.73825551 1971
9.69187374 1972
11.54124381 1973
28.48445107 1974
23.70503467 1975
24.67301377 1976
24.25756665 1977
21.28588806 1978
39.08407131 1979
31.49054811 1980
26.07046541 1981
19.27555463 1982
19.23866838 1983
17.72693513 1984
16.25327943 1985
7.79806707 1986
10.38433464 1987
10.30236569 1988
15.07469043 1989
18.37737698 1990
17.14419485 1991
16.38745317 1992
14.91240779 1993
16.43384401 1994
18.87711951 1995
21.17192421 1996
20.33273441 1997
14.62708104 1998
18.62330517 1999
26.68689739 2000
23.63094129 2001
23.47093852 2002
24.45232261 2003
26.15731301 2004
32.68003154 2005
34.19132242 2006
32.06007285 2007
32.86509136 2008
24.20225093 2009
25.53832442 2010
28.58128996 2011
26.25251446 2012
24.2231339 2013
22.61230978 2014
14.92525275 2015
12.8191814 2016
15.37239297 2017
20.71720284 2018
18.52367894 2019
14.03437709 2020
22.59027035 2021
2022
Algeria | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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