Denmark | 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
Kingdom of Denmark
Records
63
Source
Denmark | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971 0
1972 0.00161843
1973 0.00319231
1974 0.01182672
1975 0.01677839
1976 0.0197155
1977 0.04842919
1978 0.03407992
1979 0.07123223
1980 0.06162359
1981 0.14756804
1982 0.21288731
1983 0.35261317
1984 0.39964735
1985 0.49017488
1986 0.17096249
1987 0.27928356
1988 0.2076723
1989 0.39682378
1990 0.47907385
1991 0.27281839
1992 0.29788302
1993 0.32596097
1994 0.29424023
1995 0.27895339
1996 0.43329774
1997 0.40353537
1998 0.12701562
1999 0.52137144
2000 1.36695482
2001 0.95285041
2002 0.97764952
2003 0.933077
2004 1.15749024
2005 1.57548312
2006 1.54170011
2007 1.37515571
2008 1.70355051
2009 0.91483247
2010 0.98329221
2011 1.36839441
2012 1.26088733
2013 0.96764807
2014 0.83466869
2015 0.38998067
2016 0.2617585
2017 0.36705236
2018 0.45909884
2019 0.37244768
2020 0.13703678
2021 0.27029012
2022
Denmark | 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
Kingdom of Denmark
Records
63
Source