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
0.3011807 1970
0.43636923 1971
0.50235604 1972
0.57665882 1973
1.85134735 1974
2.4176184 1975
2.67110833 1976
2.15976492 1977
2.41643045 1978
5.42727046 1979
6.31093292 1980
5.15070532 1981
2.9171551 1982
3.27353016 1983
4.11858428 1984
3.36451641 1985
1.24913613 1986
1.80646716 1987
1.48517881 1988
3.54375457 1989
2.54133379 1990
1.11216954 1991
1.09688763 1992
1.09534038 1993
1.03761626 1994
1.29807344 1995
1.5959841 1996
1.42473253 1997
0.82186021 1998
1.4005641 1999
2.36414526 2000
1.91854085 2001
5.63090239 2002
4.54405238 2003
4.29522016 2004
5.18727383 2005
5.77560944 2006
4.8386157 2007
4.94937995 2008
3.09834695 2009
3.25709519 2010
3.88650404 2011
3.62564791 2012
3.1555873 2013
2.96561619 2014
1.11677493 2015
0.92968152 2016
1.02056617 2017
2.03712514 2018
2.16668839 2019
1.42962433 2020
2.65308889 2021
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