East Asia & Pacific | 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
Records
63
Source
East Asia & Pacific | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.01915896
1971 0.02128393
1972 0.06708922
1973 0.19279485
1974 1.27247845
1975 1.3237009
1976 1.50497061
1977 1.52479901
1978 1.42891885
1979 3.15313481
1980 3.47572135
1981 2.43333866
1982 1.55308197
1983 1.73172433
1984 1.69691008
1985 1.51877504
1986 0.57357826
1987 0.78876039
1988 0.52095064
1989 0.74133286
1990 0.92365831
1991 0.48215934
1992 0.49601157
1993 0.47710906
1994 0.31565714
1995 0.30428308
1996 0.40914487
1997 0.37250036
1998 0.19807819
1999 0.31634907
2000 0.61734082
2001 0.47234944
2002 0.47897832
2003 0.49985441
2004 0.65249224
2005 0.94021005
2006 1.03958385
2007 0.94010982
2008 1.17391109
2009 0.56787204
2010 0.76692207
2011 1.01343915
2012 0.87729247
2013 0.7933608
2014 0.6936661
2015 0.28170436
2016 0.20854946
2017 0.27013318
2018 0.36133934
2019 0.2601117
2020 0.0996335
2021 0.27521925
2022
East Asia & Pacific | 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
Records
63
Source