Angola | 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
Republic of Angola
Records
63
Source
Angola | Oil rents (% of GDP)
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19.54161068 1980
10.42624711 1981
4.09463309 1982
11.21929928 1983
14.09946656 1984
14.1586247 1985
6.31853107 1986
15.17078195 1987
14.40459476 1988
21.88260547 1989
28.02682565 1990
16.8761491 1991
27.02565488 1992
34.51852655 1993
40.57550948 1994
41.01881567 1995
39.07414397 1996
37.34902325 1997
21.74768001 1998
38.52426984 1999
57.51348396 2000
42.59157668 2001
31.76102925 2002
27.11626575 2003
32.96269551 2004
42.22067832 2005
40.27865209 2006
45.39760365 2007
52.10135812 2008
29.77829952 2009
37.70850918 2010
38.61843582 2011
34.33283895 2012
29.00148461 2013
21.73660745 2014
12.71873031 2015
19.74839883 2016
24.71100601 2017
30.73040273 2018
27.50482864 2019
18.57195951 2020
28.27443988 2021
2022
Angola | 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
Republic of Angola
Records
63
Source