Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Early-demographic dividend | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
3.1364236 1970
3.4639496 1971
4.27025442 1972
6.1537131 1973
16.82168997 1974
13.59667693 1975
14.85834832 1976
14.82503819 1977
13.20838649 1978
23.52977202 1979
22.29186578 1980
17.42552181 1981
12.55023736 1982
11.69529295 1983
10.91699016 1984
9.88567034 1985
5.82143584 1986
7.60586704 1987
6.94148472 1988
9.33372429 1989
11.51748968 1990
6.98324232 1991
6.60585987 1992
6.45783825 1993
6.19802061 1994
6.48419955 1995
7.21932955 1996
6.16145485 1997
4.07943139 1998
5.16757868 1999
8.04950138 2000
6.7651843 2001
6.89448088 2002
7.56569663 2003
9.00667709 2004
11.11450339 2005
11.78010255 2006
11.06849394 2007
13.58403143 2008
7.9097119 2009
9.09128594 2010
11.76187606 2011
10.75896083 2012
9.65142863 2013
8.29495434 2014
4.54965585 2015
3.9848279 2016
4.82227005 2017
6.28762647 2018
5.15962522 2019
3.71822194 2020
6.50742004 2021
2022

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