Haiti | 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 Haiti
Records
63
Source
Haiti | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
4.94082794 1970
4.35712722 1971
3.38088444 1972
3.37301294 1973
3.95897675 1974
3.26768084 1975
2.93978162 1976
3.53026773 1977
3.43616055 1978
3.15466057 1979
2.48599787 1980
2.45242006 1981
3.48259509 1982
1.10978766 1983
0.65150363 1984
0.42769592 1985
0.40868693 1986
0.5146835 1987
0.41243239 1988
0.42611193 1989
0.75898065 1990
0.75457892 1991
1.16755025 1992
1.25091937 1993
1.18848565 1994
1.22519463 1995
0.94284781 1996
0.99375137 1997
0.77842483 1998
0.61939617 1999
0.34944957 2000
0.38329502 2001
0.39688502 2002
0.51831685 2003
0.41505657 2004
0.35353437 2005
0.47448398 2006
0.40357565 2007
0.39971273 2008
0.33746373 2009
0.66574136 2010
0.53024729 2011
0.4934474 2012
0.58650727 2013
0.69928859 2014
0.57476753 2015
0.79021684 2016
0.65734272 2017
0.44034487 2018
0.44331868 2019
0.57784413 2020
0.32764197 2021
2022
Haiti | 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 Haiti
Records
63
Source