Fragile and conflict affected situations | 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
Fragile and conflict affected situations
Records
63
Source
Fragile and conflict affected situations | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 3.77145029
1971 4.62060102
1972 4.76387977
1973 7.17064078
1974 28.2600219
1975 22.22566459
1976 20.86634924
1977 19.76975926
1978 18.26651555
1979 29.41268802
1980 29.37561786
1981 10.53200998
1982 6.69217819
1983 9.754014
1984 11.52337756
1985 11.97610162
1986 5.82723452
1987 8.03958837
1988 7.06619384
1989 11.90221435
1990 12.07904787
1991 8.18514614
1992 9.38745992
1993 11.53581707
1994 12.77941361
1995 11.86608054
1996 13.67064832
1997 11.84411102
1998 6.97298634
1999 10.46702072
2000 17.2420581
2001 13.32693168
2002 12.80201656
2003 12.6766082
2004 15.60660505
2005 18.95822507
2006 18.5558219
2007 16.45443365
2008 18.79711047
2009 10.62949258
2010 13.01043744
2011 18.11097223
2012 16.98927516
2013 14.22788717
2014 11.49164016
2015 6.49924271
2016 5.81721075
2017 8.37361986
2018 11.91109365
2019 10.47721086
2020 5.34772478
2021 10.2570927
2022

Fragile and conflict affected situations | 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
Fragile and conflict affected situations
Records
63
Source