Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source
Burkina Faso | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
6.82211868 1970
5.71704905 1971
5.48004506 1972
7.99992628 1973
7.99075804 1974
8.75281727 1975
7.53390289 1976
11.86027329 1977
9.35616803 1978
7.40151103 1979
8.32728354 1980
8.02474858 1981
11.28259561 1982
8.21124482 1983
8.60982357 1984
6.14302586 1985
7.66469161 1986
6.54826042 1987
6.51432088 1988
6.70020843 1989
6.81625244 1990
7.26046396 1991
6.38594326 1992
5.6030711 1993
11.60330593 1994
13.84372632 1995
12.82650508 1996
12.75842185 1997
11.68355516 1998
4.6322232 1999
5.33460867 2000
4.76783297 2001
5.72816155 2002
6.32363458 2003
5.43726006 2004
6.3735265 2005
6.43344765 2006
7.81292413 2007
8.59697071 2008
9.57845328 2009
11.08609214 2010
13.63619334 2011
12.40160284 2012
10.75234065 2013
10.31090556 2014
11.63285023 2015
12.61551724 2016
12.30990896 2017
8.87619594 2018
8.32797318 2019
9.17782688 2020
20.13540144 2021
2022
Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source