Iran, Islamic Rep. | 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
Islamic Republic of Iran
Records
63
Source
Iran, Islamic Rep. | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
12.75731665 1970
16.45848964 1971
17.57308713 1972
19.29950182 1973
47.81139758 1974
38.14496458 1975
33.88792141 1976
30.32473823 1977
32.43596062 1978
36.96249415 1979
34.49356968 1980
27.26719842 1981
20.00163619 1982
16.23946636 1983
15.16897617 1984
13.36201643 1985
5.62097657 1986
12.15747965 1987
11.69101767 1988
18.39521719 1989
23.98544352 1990
1991
1992
30.84210651 1993
25.80959216 1994
20.77246897 1995
20.98946259 1996
19.75671594 1997
13.39501426 1998
18.62660779 1999
33.08219651 2000
24.05652828 2001
22.90156006 2002
24.18030709 2003
27.24436481 2004
34.48231602 2005
34.77912851 2006
29.18250719 2007
33.52275118 2008
20.33627432 2009
23.06804305 2010
25.34614645 2011
21.11871893 2012
24.94673903 2013
24.86078114 2014
15.23029948 2015
13.1358103 2016
17.46779643 2017
34.2395948 2018
27.80066615 2019
23.2391718 2020
30.44806009 2021
2022

Iran, Islamic Rep. | 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
Islamic Republic of Iran
Records
63
Source