Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) | 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
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
Records
63
Source
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) | Oil rents (% of GDP)
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1969
1970
0.04972104 1971
0.0517291 1972
0.10463648 1973
0.87723974 1974
0.63059997 1975
0.64813676 1976
0.53454622 1977
0.62549536 1978
1.88227479 1979
1.60862188 1980
1.18632898 1981
0.61404561 1982
1.30762263 1983
1.63182495 1984
1.98246335 1985
0.5738875 1986
1.11783219 1987
0.79545284 1988
1.40685589 1989
1.61228862 1990
0.75477426 1991
1.16079328 1992
1.0945334 1993
1.00397749 1994
1.01771339 1995
1.20981419 1996
1.16927239 1997
0.56795495 1998
1.05544591 1999
2.51671554 2000
1.88853098 2001
1.88443711 2002
1.82582781 2003
2.97790705 2004
4.40970985 2005
4.88495782 2006
4.64833004 2007
5.44385897 2008
2.60649908 2009
3.66398536 2010
4.91417764 2011
2.98197567 2012
2.48244207 2013
1.87246704 2014
0.71258425 2015
0.61144971 2016
1.07498962 2017
1.84512782 2018
1.6136067 2019
0.89446368 2020
1.75334517 2021
2022
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) | 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
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
Records
63
Source