Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Late-demographic dividend | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
3.04644282 1970
2.95917519 1971
3.36722763 1972
4.75151899 1973
10.93928902 1974
12.6379918 1975
14.26880641 1976
13.61321989 1977
13.5105103 1978
18.1463944 1979
20.67181687 1980
17.54420529 1981
14.4222716 1982
13.07349383 1983
11.95272305 1984
10.95852102 1985
6.92948968 1986
7.80100496 1987
6.48238571 1988
7.7508 1989
8.98420952 1990
5.54487041 1991
5.89088204 1992
5.32831002 1993
4.33881728 1994
4.33262701 1995
4.47803124 1996
3.89747023 1997
2.39372687 1998
3.61084471 1999
6.02762403 2000
5.43779715 2001
4.94653089 2002
5.33763155 2003
7.02479711 2004
8.07472794 2005
8.83565786 2006
8.61083399 2007
11.0217245 2008
6.01055192 2009
7.72953346 2010
9.5716281 2011
7.34491299 2012
6.24327761 2013
5.30949606 2014
2.97401813 2015
2.55017502 2016
3.14990583 2017
3.90763795 2018
3.29534612 2019
2.20189726 2020
4.28016021 2021
2022
Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source