India | 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 India
Records
63
Source
India | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.06885039
1971 0.08721823
1972 0.07842051
1973 0.07742704
1974 0.42693078
1975 0.53488341
1976 0.61326946
1977 0.67797083
1978 0.67507913
1979 1.56638969
1980 0.98547282
1981 1.60586415
1982 1.3623947
1983 1.72210114
1984 1.7279465
1985 2.02171248
1986 0.90703387
1987 1.0884485
1988 0.81644101
1989 1.33074021
1990 1.72936446
1991 1.19195276
1992 0.96130766
1993 0.85955995
1994 0.79702775
1995 0.86583352
1996 0.96076445
1997 0.8509951
1998 0.42973669
1999 0.70843039
2000 1.19880897
2001 0.8698712
2002 0.89851592
2003 0.86036336
2004 1.06043124
2005 1.28780837
2006 1.33146822
2007 1.15214697
2008 1.58498271
2009 0.63879319
2010 0.81574723
2011 1.34852706
2012 1.31387208
2013 1.19335416
2014 0.94519292
2015 0.35994071
2016 0.22029798
2017 0.31322523
2018 0.44662959
2019 0.30502832
2020 0.14434387
2021 0.32561019
2022

India | 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 India
Records
63
Source