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
1970 0.01566884
1971 0.05512768
1972 0.06447781
1973 0.0966253
1974 0.40181302
1975 0.2808149
1976 0.22007481
1977 0.21249293
1978 0.19606904
1979 0.36241629
1980 0.40150313
1981 0.31889429
1982 0.21439906
1983 0.28215155
1984 0.41278847
1985 0.38522682
1986 0.14743195
1987 0.97589088
1988 3.62418909
1989 5.79530652
1990 6.58177772
1991 2.92164122
1992 2.86308518
1993 2.53015021
1994 2.3010048
1995 2.34829339
1996 3.14925181
1997 2.42052879
1998 0.77641253
1999 2.61726912
2000 5.58352704
2001 4.33712624
2002 4.40240224
2003 4.6199664
2004 5.23607009
2005 6.37289414
2006 6.30247602
2007 5.64950591
2008 6.80914428
2009 4.74684933
2010 4.70549176
2011 6.39916728
2012 5.9212379
2013 5.26874983
2014 5.21389905
2015 2.86907788
2016 2.33728756
2017 3.22558734
2018 5.06519816
2019 4.43770485
2020 2.3178439
2021 4.89121693
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