Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source
Japan | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.00199143 1970
0.00202282 1971
0.00512588 1972
0.01194863 1973
0.07595376 1974
0.07386199 1975
0.07193022 1976
0.06437285 1977
0.04476049 1978
0.10339272 1979
0.01000525 1980
0.00520697 1981
0.00481146 1982
0.00513133 1983
0.00499719 1984
0.00591468 1985
0.00203764 1986
0.0022961 1987
0.00141984 1988
0.00188387 1989
0.00279922 1990
0.00170665 1991
0.00193122 1992
0.0016828 1993
0.00124849 1994
0.00126945 1995
0.00168091 1996
0.00134733 1997
0.00071469 1998
0.00108954 1999
0.00204601 2000
0.00113512 2001
0.0011256 2002
0.00115087 2003
0.001124 2004
0.00190799 2005
0.0021472 2006
0.00248906 2007
0.00254188 2008
0.00121215 2009
0.00158079 2010
0.00234602 2011
0.00248639 2012
0.00279889 2013
0.00369773 2014
0.00197604 2015
0.00120567 2016
0.00188219 2017
0.00254123 2018
0.00193345 2019
0.00071079 2020
0.00223132 2021
2022
Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source