Colombia | 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
Republic of Colombia
Records
63
Source
Colombia | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.45385214
1971 0.68551742
1972 0.65731798
1973 0.92942317
1974 3.98291235
1975 3.3382148
1976 2.86098892
1977 1.7853554
1978 1.56559234
1979 3.25082064
1980 3.40244588
1981 2.79806454
1982 1.67230461
1983 2.43966814
1984 2.66352852
1985 2.92183566
1986 2.14754362
1987 4.2929625
1988 2.87586384
1989 4.66461025
1990 5.8572518
1991 3.02073717
1992 2.8322917
1993 2.4561987
1994 1.94674411
1995 2.53983784
1996 3.29062171
1997 2.73078986
1998 1.79752139
1999 3.89182281
2000 5.13691457
2001 3.38952912
2002 3.47234914
2003 3.70073313
2004 3.84640285
2005 4.6618753
2006 5.14627956
2007 4.23708928
2008 5.53392629
2009 3.27049268
2010 4.39207979
2011 6.93264067
2012 6.20532169
2013 5.87412218
2014 5.26376178
2015 2.62770809
2016 1.86176732
2017 2.42584235
2018 3.6400666
2019 3.14271008
2020 1.5627979
2021 3.42402488
2022
Colombia | 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
Republic of Colombia
Records
63
Source