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