France | 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
French Republic
Records
63
Source
France | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.00124453 1970
0.00308005 1971
0.00302996 1972
0.00389685 1973
0.02205101 1974
0.0150499 1975
0.01490405 1976
0.0139991 1977
0.01150395 1978
0.02441408 1979
0.03188383 1980
0.03436125 1981
0.02201832 1982
0.03083607 1983
0.04040653 1984
0.05037341 1985
0.01588284 1986
0.02306142 1987
0.01673648 1988
0.02570034 1989
0.0266358 1990
0.012641 1991
0.01205798 1992
0.01180395 1993
0.0102733 1994
0.00879839 1995
0.01056052 1996
0.00775305 1997
0.00220735 1998
0.0060101 1999
0.01281622 2000
0.00936013 2001
0.00830876 2002
0.0073791 2003
0.00810398 2004
0.01114123 2005
0.01186793 2006
0.01059079 2007
0.01424707 2008
0.00767615 2009
0.00891754 2010
0.01081927 2011
0.01269375 2012
0.01093143 2013
0.00947162 2014
0.00512462 2015
0.00385165 2016
0.00518662 2017
0.00839113 2018
0.0067826 2019
0.00329711 2020
0.00710219 2021
2022
France | 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
French Republic
Records
63
Source