Austria | 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 Austria
Records
63
Source
Austria | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.01338402
1971 0.03966567
1972 0.04609952
1973 0.06572082
1974 0.29097093
1975 0.21297029
1976 0.20452171
1977 0.16523614
1978 0.14154386
1979 0.2805042
1980 0.26677415
1981 0.22336343
1982 0.13519398
1983 0.1702739
1984 0.17566442
1985 0.16806179
1986 0.04541564
1987 0.05570358
1988 0.04433881
1989 0.07002106
1990 0.07651189
1991 0.03968737
1992 0.03526803
1993 0.03406684
1994 0.02709001
1995 0.02405568
1996 0.03285019
1997 0.02803519
1998 0.00837487
1999 0.02629228
2000 0.06103772
2001 0.0440884
2002 0.04205337
2003 0.03920502
2004 0.04853673
2005 0.0604957
2006 0.06627436
2007 0.05868996
2008 0.0884445
2009 0.05343024
2010 0.05991494
2011 0.07384597
2012 0.08433424
2013 0.07495016
2014 0.07691403
2015 0.0340777
2016 0.02325188
2017 0.03016383
2018 0.04265885
2019 0.03682551
2020 0.01727569
2021 0.03780379
2022

Austria | 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 Austria
Records
63
Source