Europe & Central Asia (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
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.01566884 1970
0.05512768 1971
0.06447781 1972
0.0966253 1973
0.40181302 1974
0.2808149 1975
0.22007481 1976
0.21249293 1977
0.19606904 1978
0.36241629 1979
0.40150313 1980
0.31889429 1981
0.21439906 1982
0.28215155 1983
0.41278847 1984
0.38522682 1985
0.14743195 1986
0.97589088 1987
3.62418909 1988
5.79530652 1989
6.58177772 1990
2.92164122 1991
2.86308518 1992
2.53015021 1993
2.3010048 1994
2.34829339 1995
3.14925181 1996
2.42052879 1997
0.77641253 1998
2.61726912 1999
5.58352704 2000
4.33712624 2001
4.40240224 2002
4.6199664 2003
5.23607009 2004
6.37289414 2005
6.30247602 2006
5.64950591 2007
6.80914428 2008
4.74684933 2009
4.70549176 2010
6.39916728 2011
5.9212379 2012
5.26874983 2013
5.21389905 2014
2.86907788 2015
2.33728756 2016
3.22558734 2017
5.06519816 2018
4.43770485 2019
2.3178439 2020
4.89121693 2021
2022
Europe & Central Asia (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
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source