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