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
1970 3.1364236
1971 3.4639496
1972 4.27025442
1973 6.1537131
1974 16.82168997
1975 13.59667693
1976 14.85834832
1977 14.82503819
1978 13.20838649
1979 23.52977202
1980 22.29186578
1981 17.42552181
1982 12.55023736
1983 11.69529295
1984 10.91699016
1985 9.88567034
1986 5.82143584
1987 7.60586704
1988 6.94148472
1989 9.33372429
1990 11.51748968
1991 6.98324232
1992 6.60585987
1993 6.45783825
1994 6.19802061
1995 6.48419955
1996 7.21932955
1997 6.16145485
1998 4.07943139
1999 5.16757868
2000 8.04950138
2001 6.7651843
2002 6.89448088
2003 7.56569663
2004 9.00667709
2005 11.11450339
2006 11.78010255
2007 11.06849394
2008 13.58403143
2009 7.9097119
2010 9.09128594
2011 11.76187606
2012 10.75896083
2013 9.65142863
2014 8.29495434
2015 4.54965585
2016 3.9848279
2017 4.82227005
2018 6.28762647
2019 5.15962522
2020 3.71822194
2021 6.50742004
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