Burundi | 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
Republic of Burundi
Records
63
Source
Burundi | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
6.75179244 1970
5.38352192 1971
6.30829521 1972
8.73544 1973
8.53403131 1974
9.72861508 1975
8.01546941 1976
12.50793833 1977
11.65362791 1978
8.38373041 1979
8.97893497 1980
7.57807236 1981
10.81466418 1982
6.54287624 1983
6.7783747 1984
5.93607795 1985
8.57543243 1986
9.32629776 1987
10.38885776 1988
10.65469443 1989
13.37103255 1990
12.69454593 1991
14.02066839 1992
14.23864858 1993
17.06171534 1994
24.02891351 1995
28.92466302 1996
23.62156395 1997
27.01923838 1998
15.41724374 1999
15.06093519 2000
18.81207809 2001
24.30142546 2002
40.4921952 2003
30.45452019 2004
26.68076751 2005
23.94917946 2006
32.35635677 2007
33.04824404 2008
30.33665756 2009
23.85337574 2010
24.98915895 2011
17.55019993 2012
17.73285532 2013
17.45474834 2014
15.53445315 2015
19.10164998 2016
18.50767497 2017
13.43176299 2018
13.12743764 2019
13.84755216 2020
13.95703399 2021
2022
Burundi | 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
Republic of Burundi
Records
63
Source