Iran, Islamic Rep. | 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
Islamic Republic of Iran
Records
63
Source
Iran, Islamic Rep. | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
11.73398394 1970
14.82615941 1971
16.72527367 1972
18.56894037 1973
47.36014063 1974
37.26624982 1975
33.27295754 1976
29.66191052 1977
31.76534218 1978
36.27122459 1979
34.06029677 1980
26.95726026 1981
19.78826859 1982
15.93317884 1983
14.83477587 1984
13.01116005 1985
5.32618285 1986
11.71657526 1987
11.05340117 1988
17.70189638 1989
23.29123603 1990
1991
1992
29.38532822 1993
24.21902164 1994
19.30405858 1995
19.66856146 1996
18.04369802 1997
11.64921076 1998
16.7896155 1999
30.66377467 2000
21.48821685 2001
20.44374146 2002
22.04491744 2003
25.19900204 2004
31.60767626 2005
31.55820381 2006
26.12524012 2007
30.5659739 2008
17.5512588 2009
20.22483635 2010
22.35145892 2011
18.41207234 2012
21.25656655 2013
21.23537583 2014
12.26635274 2015
10.88950315 2016
14.62043997 2017
27.66464716 2018
20.07804905 2019
13.27334954 2020
18.26589809 2021
2022
Iran, Islamic Rep. | 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
Islamic Republic of Iran
Records
63
Source