East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | Oil rents (% of GDP)
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1969
0.05116388 1970
0.05621305 1971
0.19593624 1972
0.58997333 1973
4.07661687 1974
4.17170477 1975
5.20642585 1976
5.49423924 1977
5.82540764 1978
12.46506644 1979
12.31880539 1980
9.29456587 1981
5.6772389 1982
6.5306766 1983
6.43736551 1984
5.80936613 1985
2.88835221 1986
4.39458596 1987
3.0304943 1988
4.1525226 1989
5.43763951 1990
2.97265767 1991
2.91579413 1992
2.66298935 1993
1.88425554 1994
1.67447016 1995
1.89990474 1996
1.58556049 1997
0.82472025 1998
1.35883847 1999
2.54239411 2000
1.70057518 2001
1.56574528 2002
1.59880926 2003
2.04942076 2004
2.74184443 2005
2.67584373 2006
2.1189204 2007
2.44707187 2008
1.12553613 2009
1.45621899 2010
1.82776391 2011
1.53100468 2012
1.28364789 2013
1.07710745 2014
0.42028962 2015
0.31519414 2016
0.40213698 2017
0.52479033 2018
0.36975804 2019
0.13870484 2020
0.36979303 2021
2022
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source