Guatemala | 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
Republic of Guatemala
Records
63
Source
Guatemala | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971 0
1972 0
1973 0
1974 0
1975 0
1976 0.01653897
1977 0.0059735
1978 0.00254676
1979 0.15269465
1980 0.44245136
1981 0.33262318
1982 0.30063701
1983 0.4394873
1984 0.27699405
1985 0.15929991
1986 0.15566206
1987 0.19058638
1988 0.12920942
1989 0.18127543
1990 0.30195737
1991 0.1262588
1992 0.18583944
1993 0.19502326
1994 0.18076762
1995 0.23555885
1996 0.47490615
1997 0.49053755
1998 0.31390362
1999 0.52323815
2000 0.80374547
2001 0.63116113
2002 0.70999019
2003 0.74143185
2004 0.7293748
2005 0.88786875
2006 0.85158148
2007 0.75024455
2008 0.83543047
2009 0.41256108
2010 0.47050587
2011 0.59211079
2012 0.52103175
2013 0.41879556
2014 0.36376572
2015 0.12382827
2016 0.08071532
2017 0.11919505
2018 0.17663466
2019 0.13992226
2020 0.05328922
2021 0.11814004
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Guatemala | 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
Republic of Guatemala
Records
63
Source