France | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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 | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.16524399 1970
0.1533881 1971
0.14465504 1972
0.1557118 1973
0.22220409 1974
0.23819992 1975
0.26175999 1976
0.23631317 1977
0.18146349 1978
0.2050521 1979
0.22967969 1980
0.23037552 1981
0.21894948 1982
0.19276333 1983
0.17916865 1984
0.18198978 1985
0.10874697 1986
0.09433878 1987
0.10463473 1988
0.12192232 1989
0.10886456 1990
0.08142541 1991
0.07655949 1992
0.07321498 1993
0.07124239 1994
0.07172627 1995
0.07307264 1996
0.06371826 1997
0.04551326 1998
0.04584474 1999
0.06974441 2000
0.06314865 2001
0.05683789 2002
0.05124895 2003
0.04062595 2004
0.0417273 2005
0.04815751 2006
0.04848353 2007
0.05398007 2008
0.04945861 2009
0.05465713 2010
0.04869243 2011
0.04836096 2012
0.04816984 2013
0.04622518 2014
0.04099134 2015
0.04019016 2016
0.03622504 2017
0.04290511 2018
0.03378782 2019
0.02663187 2020
0.03253664 2021
2022
France | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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