Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source
Argentina | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.3011807
1971 0.43636923
1972 0.50235604
1973 0.57665882
1974 1.85134735
1975 2.4176184
1976 2.67110833
1977 2.15976492
1978 2.41643045
1979 5.42727046
1980 6.31093292
1981 5.15070532
1982 2.9171551
1983 3.27353016
1984 4.11858428
1985 3.36451641
1986 1.24913613
1987 1.80646716
1988 1.48517881
1989 3.54375457
1990 2.54133379
1991 1.11216954
1992 1.09688763
1993 1.09534038
1994 1.03761626
1995 1.29807344
1996 1.5959841
1997 1.42473253
1998 0.82186021
1999 1.4005641
2000 2.36414526
2001 1.91854085
2002 5.63090239
2003 4.54405238
2004 4.29522016
2005 5.18727383
2006 5.77560944
2007 4.8386157
2008 4.94937995
2009 3.09834695
2010 3.25709519
2011 3.88650404
2012 3.62564791
2013 3.1555873
2014 2.96561619
2015 1.11677493
2016 0.92968152
2017 1.02056617
2018 2.03712514
2019 2.16668839
2020 1.42962433
2021 2.65308889
2022

Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source