Jordan | 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
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Records
63
Source
Jordan | Oil rents (% of GDP)
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1970
0 1971
0 1972
0 1973
0 1974
0 1975
0 1976
0 1977
0 1978
0 1979
0 1980
0 1981
0 1982
0 1983
0.00049643 1984
0.07166348 1985
0.02771713 1986
0.03608301 1987
0.03248073 1988
0.03440116 1989
0.06988172 1990
0.01650743 1991
0.00599677 1992
0.00269168 1993
0.00219147 1994
0.00199966 1995
0.00316985 1996
0.00274325 1997
0.00169008 1998
0.00234588 1999
0.00382519 2000
0.00270498 2001
0.00236581 2002
0.002364 2003
0.00252507 2004
0.00299417 2005
0.00336695 2006
0.00322699 2007
0.00479654 2008
0.00223181 2009
0.00222486 2010
0.00229865 2011
0.00247523 2012
0.00191268 2013
0.00161999 2014
0.00042991 2015
0.00025081 2016
0.00021179 2017
0.00098052 2018
0.00078773 2019
0.00046772 2020
0.01436331 2021
2022
Jordan | 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
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Records
63
Source