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
0.0288341 1970
0.03713546 1971
0.03105206 1972
0.03485626 1973
4.40414727 1974
4.30961931 1975
1.17264537 1976
3.03952238 1977
0.08223771 1978
0.13305937 1979
0.78855352 1980
1.11443256 1981
0.64976813 1982
0.43809486 1983
0.02878257 1984
0.27744043 1985
0.0513618 1986
0.05888662 1987
0.05774641 1988
0.11531722 1989
0.20240419 1990
0.14032711 1991
0.10509274 1992
0.1054931 1993
0.14867391 1994
0.16214137 1995
0.16820473 1996
0.17126941 1997
0.17108222 1998
0.1332718 1999
0.15421184 2000
0.15841827 2001
0.12362682 2002
0.13405467 2003
0.12763444 2004
0.12201375 2005
0.46556508 2006
0.76550828 2007
5.65269979 2008
3.86553109 2009
1.66596421 2010
3.31767245 2011
2.90847924 2012
1.27909933 2013
1.19542289 2014
1.39974258 2015
1.12573697 2016
0.86900068 2017
0.71907282 2018
0.04285766 2019
0.05167591 2020
0.0776641 2021
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