Guatemala | 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
Republic of Guatemala
Records
63
Source
Guatemala | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1.17777389 1970
1.02507617 1971
1.09621087 1972
1.46634857 1973
1.34731986 1974
1.62233697 1975
1.08011252 1976
1.47193653 1977
1.42725859 1978
1.70295503 1979
2.03203209 1980
1.45860602 1981
2.70138157 1982
1.25892751 1983
0.76615025 1984
0.46949688 1985
0.57383575 1986
0.64006735 1987
0.55882615 1988
0.60135839 1989
1.83045513 1990
1.65426432 1991
1.5233203 1992
1.33092443 1993
1.34833879 1994
1.59672728 1995
1.38934547 1996
1.58260941 1997
1.20269768 1998
1.42197658 1999
1.65531508 2000
1.51688956 2001
1.49552332 2002
1.55532614 2003
1.45629547 2004
1.55562795 2005
1.93392564 2006
1.95055907 2007
1.93184238 2008
1.63784143 2009
2.64520848 2010
2.86196592 2011
2.18105908 2012
2.18983261 2013
2.9811166 2014
1.78572375 2015
2.01829626 2016
1.50289202 2017
1.19385178 2018
1.14790982 2019
1.35250209 2020
1.92928512 2021
2022
Guatemala | 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
Republic of Guatemala
Records
63
Source