Egypt, Arab Rep. | 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
Arab Republic of Egypt
Records
63
Source
Egypt, Arab Rep. | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 1.35975092
1971 1.5177865
1972 1.41414966
1973 1.39607975
1974 5.88631021
1975 7.24294064
1976 9.70584745
1977 12.16474291
1978 14.10987956
1979 29.23213876
1980 31.69008218
1981 27.70190882
1982 20.31458553
1983 19.56984222
1984 19.79687637
1985 18.12343355
1986 7.79500739
1987 12.03568013
1988 11.02028815
1989 13.89232624
1990 16.94504047
1991 11.76624411
1992 11.12213027
1993 9.87234454
1994 7.89742762
1995 7.50906073
1996 8.40318333
1997 6.09921818
1998 3.42870522
1999 5.19186776
2000 6.47222161
2001 5.17066273
2002 5.90580704
2003 7.50637371
2004 9.49448631
2005 11.85093121
2006 11.72969341
2007 10.78185883
2008 12.45456777
2009 6.24755741
2010 7.41778713
2011 9.74186286
2012 8.38345897
2013 7.8286302
2014 6.82340014
2015 3.05526434
2016 2.35006517
2017 4.12683269
2018 5.47658823
2019 3.88196186
2020 1.85770095
2021 2.98581458
2022
Egypt, Arab Rep. | 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
Arab Republic of Egypt
Records
63
Source