Cuba | 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 Cuba
Records
63
Source
Cuba | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.0047713 1970
0.01400455 1971
0.01869774 1972
0.03378872 1973
0.19784598 1974
0.19330981 1975
0.19678785 1976
0.16058627 1977
0.14041479 1978
0.33619087 1979
0.23011806 1980
0.30182904 1981
0.21706794 1982
0.33535984 1983
0.38056587 1984
0.4283797 1985
0.18442015 1986
0.2869244 1987
0.16436342 1988
0.25299135 1989
0.31891247 1990
0.20121216 1991
0.28146436 1992
0.31337634 1993
0.374699 1994
0.36998782 1995
0.6753902 1996
0.62649395 1997
0.30037905 1998
0.54394789 1999
1.0339216 2000
0.77989473 2001
0.83177975 2002
0.99367554 2003
1.18579942 2004
1.37378607 2005
1.48799318 2006
1.57046386 2007
2.0258567 2008
0.98736661 2009
1.34124171 2010
1.84020872 2011
1.66617403 2012
1.44283922 2013
1.25544343 2014
0.43994999 2015
0.32541983 2016
0.45770495 2017
0.73149535 2018
0.54371341 2019
0.22249989 2020
2021
2022
Cuba | 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 Cuba
Records
63
Source