Morocco | Mineral rents (% of GDP)

Mineral rents are the difference between the value of production for a stock of minerals at world prices and their total costs of production. Minerals included in the calculation are tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate. 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source
Morocco | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.46906908
1971 0.27413995
1972 0.07680533
1973 0.41043594
1974 10.02551759
1975 7.47273071
1976 2.85656031
1977 6.57733893
1978 1.2603832
1979 1.64067283
1980 1.55995705
1981 2.29472095
1982 1.73385849
1983 1.79997676
1984 1.27887603
1985 1.86959874
1986 0.68201282
1987 0.16278694
1988 2.21320978
1989 0.12846527
1990 0.08945692
1991 0.07782894
1992 0.09047264
1993 0.07078144
1994 0.18576801
1995 0.17824018
1996 0.10429726
1997 0.12964655
1998 0.04873303
1999 0.06575213
2000 0.12693916
2001 0.00316263
2002 0.00384366
2003 0.03898346
2004 0.40315683
2005 0.58533209
2006 0.99898507
2007 1.33571239
2008 5.80519549
2009 3.85315008
2010 5.29773108
2011 7.2047825
2012 6.2130433
2013 4.3328234
2014 3.23580085
2015 2.33199607
2016 2.68677242
2017 3.05500973
2018 2.28347676
2019 0.1555798
2020 0.14753974
2021 0.26590798
2022

Morocco | Mineral rents (% of GDP)

Mineral rents are the difference between the value of production for a stock of minerals at world prices and their total costs of production. Minerals included in the calculation are tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate. 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source