Cuba | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)

Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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 | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.87141325
1971 0.72241184
1972 0.64493351
1973 0.58784769
1974 0.67269291
1975 0.78750933
1976 0.84515137
1977 0.78668254
1978 0.43925774
1979 0.84377896
1980 0.81702035
1981 0.75816705
1982 0.60448018
1983 0.53001827
1984 0.52941895
1985 0.59771958
1986 0.28733528
1987 0.39884127
1988 1.53552007
1989 1.66008278
1990 0.88990001
1991 0.97417597
1992 0.98078088
1993 0.72653102
1994 0.74904039
1995 1.10319878
1996 1.4270218
1997 1.13012664
1998 0.56875064
1999 0.78855345
2000 1.90613586
2001 1.17627918
2002 1.36767489
2003 1.92021875
2004 2.7059909
2005 2.63773654
2006 3.74613118
2007 6.72039795
2008 3.18662044
2009 1.76313462
2010 2.69060313
2011 2.92694825
2012 2.18752036
2013 1.7118816
2014 1.66734772
2015 0.69380086
2016 0.46910017
2017 0.66367803
2018 1.1018542
2019 0.9207509
2020 0.56535168
2021
2022

Cuba | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)

Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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