Dominican Republic | 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
Dominican Republic
Records
63
Source
Dominican Republic | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.72856742 1970
0.78220668 1971
1.93534214 1972
2.67666624 1973
2.67558268 1974
2.1673312 1975
2.02607388 1976
1.79331733 1977
0.89260091 1978
2.09348745 1979
3.12052826 1980
1.97339347 1981
0.9250695 1982
1.09028393 1983
0.70555297 1984
1.4460497 1985
0.56683196 1986
1.20252746 1987
5.71664847 1988
4.48380373 1989
2.01017459 1990
1.40795464 1991
0.80256648 1992
0.27024182 1993
0.79331141 1994
1.14002178 1995
0.70339447 1996
0.50324074 1997
0.04811315 1998
0.19052824 1999
0.34102679 2000
0.02278901 2001
0.02764778 2002
0.54163239 2003
1.21413015 2004
0.72103539 2005
1.60623431 2006
2.528048 2007
0.23414705 2008
0.12350391 2009
0.17240018 2010
0.34021082 2011
0.44684071 2012
1.02972097 2013
1.03750955 2014
0.53534786 2015
1.28194793 2016
1.03534454 2017
0.86888946 2018
1.05544444 2019
1.23931109 2020
2.07711319 2021
2022
Dominican Republic | 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
Dominican Republic
Records
63
Source