Jordan | 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
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Records
63
Source
Jordan | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.0288341
1971 0.03713546
1972 0.03105206
1973 0.03485626
1974 4.40414727
1975 4.30961931
1976 1.17264537
1977 3.03952238
1978 0.08223771
1979 0.13305937
1980 0.78855352
1981 1.11443256
1982 0.64976813
1983 0.43809486
1984 0.02878257
1985 0.27744043
1986 0.0513618
1987 0.05888662
1988 0.05774641
1989 0.11531722
1990 0.20240419
1991 0.14032711
1992 0.10509274
1993 0.1054931
1994 0.14867391
1995 0.16214137
1996 0.16820473
1997 0.17126941
1998 0.17108222
1999 0.1332718
2000 0.15421184
2001 0.15841827
2002 0.12362682
2003 0.13405467
2004 0.12763444
2005 0.12201375
2006 0.46556508
2007 0.76550828
2008 5.65269979
2009 3.86553109
2010 1.66596421
2011 3.31767245
2012 2.90847924
2013 1.27909933
2014 1.19542289
2015 1.39974258
2016 1.12573697
2017 0.86900068
2018 0.71907282
2019 0.04285766
2020 0.05167591
2021 0.0776641
2022
Jordan | 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
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Records
63
Source