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
0 1971
0 1972
0 1973
0 1974
0 1975
0.01653897 1976
0.0059735 1977
0.00254676 1978
0.15269465 1979
0.44245136 1980
0.33262318 1981
0.30063701 1982
0.4394873 1983
0.27699405 1984
0.15929991 1985
0.15566206 1986
0.19058638 1987
0.12920942 1988
0.18127543 1989
0.30195737 1990
0.1262588 1991
0.18583944 1992
0.19502326 1993
0.18076762 1994
0.23555885 1995
0.47490615 1996
0.49053755 1997
0.31390362 1998
0.52323815 1999
0.80374547 2000
0.63116113 2001
0.70999019 2002
0.74143185 2003
0.7293748 2004
0.88786875 2005
0.85158148 2006
0.75024455 2007
0.83543047 2008
0.41256108 2009
0.47050587 2010
0.59211079 2011
0.52103175 2012
0.41879556 2013
0.36376572 2014
0.12382827 2015
0.08071532 2016
0.11919505 2017
0.17663466 2018
0.13992226 2019
0.05328922 2020
0.11814004 2021
2022
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