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
1.35975092 1970
1.5177865 1971
1.41414966 1972
1.39607975 1973
5.88631021 1974
7.24294064 1975
9.70584745 1976
12.16474291 1977
14.10987956 1978
29.23213876 1979
31.69008218 1980
27.70190882 1981
20.31458553 1982
19.56984222 1983
19.79687637 1984
18.12343355 1985
7.79500739 1986
12.03568013 1987
11.02028815 1988
13.89232624 1989
16.94504047 1990
11.76624411 1991
11.12213027 1992
9.87234454 1993
7.89742762 1994
7.50906073 1995
8.40318333 1996
6.09921818 1997
3.42870522 1998
5.19186776 1999
6.47222161 2000
5.17066273 2001
5.90580704 2002
7.50637371 2003
9.49448631 2004
11.85093121 2005
11.72969341 2006
10.78185883 2007
12.45456777 2008
6.24755741 2009
7.41778713 2010
9.74186286 2011
8.38345897 2012
7.8286302 2013
6.82340014 2014
3.05526434 2015
2.35006517 2016
4.12683269 2017
5.47658823 2018
3.88196186 2019
1.85770095 2020
2.98581458 2021
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