Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Late-demographic dividend | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1.12597432 1970
1.22496402 1971
1.47319228 1972
1.88552306 1973
7.38931144 1974
8.32469921 1975
9.69887543 1976
8.84317228 1977
8.84499396 1978
13.27495687 1979
15.08968268 1980
11.41428495 1981
7.6265391 1982
8.34659695 1983
8.60033117 1984
7.62308651 1985
4.0975594 1986
5.38522192 1987
4.38890583 1988
5.30914956 1989
6.45325079 1990
3.26885779 1991
3.44682244 1992
3.24170301 1993
2.54251892 1994
2.316939 1995
2.82034256 1996
2.38481451 1997
1.25181671 1998
2.45517969 1999
4.52805128 2000
3.36406016 2001
3.35401329 2002
3.69297114 2003
4.40617397 2004
5.58705374 2005
5.65085102 2006
4.88939642 2007
5.72042747 2008
3.22994792 2009
3.64088693 2010
4.75419303 2011
4.40646679 2012
3.89159626 2013
3.44468829 2014
1.64019987 2015
1.30379542 2016
1.64930414 2017
2.26662975 2018
1.91613719 2019
0.99229298 2020
1.72261542 2021
2022
Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source