China | 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
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source
China | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.02399325 1970
0.03261664 1971
0.11028905 1972
0.33598122 1973
2.77486095 1974
3.13064077 1975
4.11075237 1976
4.32661024 1977
5.55801172 1978
11.60101592 1979
12.27971586 1980
9.41179175 1981
6.06435465 1982
6.54804531 1983
6.22299902 1984
5.60486221 1985
2.84717065 1986
4.7816937 1987
3.18960289 1988
4.15992451 1989
5.54445903 1990
3.02704993 1991
2.96010199 1992
2.81111821 1993
1.91608086 1994
1.62342402 1995
1.84232152 1996
1.44303352 1997
0.6345916 1998
1.0872772 1999
2.03905175 2000
1.32058498 2001
1.24409369 2002
1.28559249 2003
1.6350637 2004
2.23061473 2005
2.22552446 2006
1.75983054 2007
1.99028603 2008
0.89905054 2009
1.22257362 2010
1.54520918 2011
1.28348679 2012
1.07614082 2013
0.88810039 2014
0.33524362 2015
0.24586685 2016
0.31380404 2017
0.41303867 2018
0.29845775 2019
0.11430445 2020
0.30857876 2021
2022
China | 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
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source