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
1970 0.02399325
1971 0.03261664
1972 0.11028905
1973 0.33598122
1974 2.77486095
1975 3.13064077
1976 4.11075237
1977 4.32661024
1978 5.55801172
1979 11.60101592
1980 12.27971586
1981 9.41179175
1982 6.06435465
1983 6.54804531
1984 6.22299902
1985 5.60486221
1986 2.84717065
1987 4.7816937
1988 3.18960289
1989 4.15992451
1990 5.54445903
1991 3.02704993
1992 2.96010199
1993 2.81111821
1994 1.91608086
1995 1.62342402
1996 1.84232152
1997 1.44303352
1998 0.6345916
1999 1.0872772
2000 2.03905175
2001 1.32058498
2002 1.24409369
2003 1.28559249
2004 1.6350637
2005 2.23061473
2006 2.22552446
2007 1.75983054
2008 1.99028603
2009 0.89905054
2010 1.22257362
2011 1.54520918
2012 1.28348679
2013 1.07614082
2014 0.88810039
2015 0.33524362
2016 0.24586685
2017 0.31380404
2018 0.41303867
2019 0.29845775
2020 0.11430445
2021 0.30857876
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