Egypt, Arab Rep. | 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
Arab Republic of Egypt
Records
63
Source
Egypt, Arab Rep. | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1.71748899 1970
1.82337152 1971
1.73987603 1972
1.78736988 1973
6.58972627 1974
7.95165849 1975
10.1700916 1976
12.90968303 1977
14.86517764 1978
29.91275849 1979
32.50936934 1980
28.51123864 1981
21.30620573 1982
20.42320989 1983
20.61219507 1984
18.63725708 1985
8.60401134 1986
12.85942793 1987
12.03436414 1988
14.8471424 1989
17.92112871 1990
12.93063765 1991
12.13515884 1992
10.78777858 1993
8.80666206 1994
8.46293558 1995
9.35519974 1996
6.97273047 1997
4.33399829 1998
5.93374873 1999
7.41974591 2000
6.4693858 2001
7.30037528 2002
9.13743176 2003
11.37711259 2004
14.46448521 2005
14.84638755 2006
13.5101746 2007
15.58248556 2008
9.13078194 2009
9.45061557 2010
12.3388402 2011
10.74549784 2012
9.78188256 2013
8.43222797 2014
4.12906895 2015
3.20908061 2016
5.69886429 2017
7.59656356 2018
5.72496131 2019
3.25774327 2020
5.13912007 2021
2022
Egypt, Arab Rep. | 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
Arab Republic of Egypt
Records
63
Source