Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source
Argentina | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.18377915
1971 0.31288678
1972 0.35904734
1973 0.41280528
1974 1.65885774
1975 2.11889965
1976 2.35967094
1977 1.93385257
1978 2.19019719
1979 5.02863549
1980 5.84241226
1981 4.79626652
1982 2.64858284
1983 2.9319967
1984 3.68570762
1985 3.00657446
1986 0.97146283
1987 1.54851052
1988 1.0703941
1989 2.73924507
1990 2.18272105
1991 0.89399339
1992 0.91149017
1993 0.90189291
1994 0.88221025
1995 1.11368338
1996 1.42093288
1997 1.27158679
1998 0.67625546
1999 1.18222912
2000 2.03921232
2001 1.57828962
2002 4.58801102
2003 3.79526357
2004 3.62815046
2005 4.36083044
2006 4.49089065
2007 3.70577772
2008 4.03900097
2009 2.12453488
2010 2.30522042
2011 2.74533147
2012 2.55649872
2013 2.25387299
2014 2.09270565
2015 0.69391205
2016 0.54955201
2017 0.66356587
2018 1.31095341
2019 1.29099566
2020 0.67705557
2021 1.54438229
2022
Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source