Honduras | 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 Honduras
Records
63
Source
Honduras | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
4.44328537 1970
4.1877132 1971
5.05815676 1972
8.01066476 1973
8.30297216 1974
7.06120644 1975
4.93681169 1976
5.90897184 1977
3.25977384 1978
3.5313721 1979
3.80349199 1980
2.99184449 1981
5.63130162 1982
2.83901278 1983
2.27930065 1984
1.59092746 1985
0.6907245 1986
0.68414219 1987
2.73969678 1988
2.45802459 1989
3.21092333 1990
2.70781658 1991
2.19178077 1992
1.8349767 1993
2.27034904 1994
2.45297008 1995
1.9680215 1996
2.34343118 1997
1.85661666 1998
1.687614 1999
1.37113446 2000
1.43828418 2001
1.37053918 2002
1.21682443 2003
1.17065229 2004
1.19616286 2005
1.93886521 2006
1.6613616 2007
1.20679032 2008
1.16441148 2009
2.36463288 2010
1.70448075 2011
1.63060549 2012
1.78208818 2013
2.26612792 2014
1.56846231 2015
2.01566336 2016
1.72906722 2017
1.07184111 2018
0.91685521 2019
1.23326098 2020
1.22455314 2021
2022
Honduras | 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 Honduras
Records
63
Source