Bahrain | 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
Kingdom of Bahrain
Records
63
Source
Bahrain | Oil rents (% of GDP)
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1979
68.13621254 1980
58.06992227 1981
33.74233688 1982
29.04194909 1983
31.88710605 1984
30.41492827 1985
23.31229589 1986
30.03433079 1987
23.10712121 1988
31.14674173 1989
37.04373747 1990
20.48531207 1991
20.76167698 1992
17.95803079 1993
14.68295291 1994
15.24597026 1995
18.44940244 1996
16.4187314 1997
10.63769586 1998
14.79407998 1999
18.71107805 2000
15.00744715 2001
14.49065385 2002
14.9880274 2003
16.65302134 2004
20.09312174 2005
20.36706147 2006
18.99060482 2007
21.68157688 2008
14.4351177 2009
17.31563295 2010
23.39805595 2011
20.09402347 2012
20.8660137 2013
18.87092669 2014
9.82474437 2015
7.62960433 2016
8.9379526 2017
11.39008112 2018
9.84818868 2019
6.69558923 2020
10.93767564 2021
2022
Bahrain | 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
Kingdom of Bahrain
Records
63
Source