Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Early-demographic dividend | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
2.03400761 1970
2.32179338 1971
3.07970078 1972
4.46587299 1973
15.14852085 1974
11.82284211 1975
13.21963139 1976
12.85490721 1977
11.49305743 1978
21.62792015 1979
19.8652982 1980
15.5214886 1981
10.5008514 1982
9.90161612 1983
9.54305147 1984
8.39538523 1985
4.28850997 1986
5.96609554 1987
4.86844024 1988
7.16462598 1989
9.65737547 1990
5.32576996 1991
5.15718843 1992
5.20708008 1993
4.85715439 1994
4.9069966 1995
5.72921764 1996
4.84081118 1997
2.89484196 1998
4.15458272 1999
6.83545856 2000
5.35363173 2001
5.50082779 2002
6.09819134 2003
7.22616965 2004
9.22786041 2005
9.51911635 2006
8.48405497 2007
10.43565863 2008
5.68078452 2009
6.40675839 2010
8.57472034 2011
8.29101106 2012
7.40856282 2013
6.38184025 2014
3.02419127 2015
2.46533447 2016
3.10313446 2017
4.30699571 2018
3.40186138 2019
1.92803647 2020
3.33107773 2021
2022

Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source