Morocco | 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source
Morocco | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
0.00490104 1971
0.00652275 1972
0.01195858 1973
0.02452842 1974
0.01660133 1975
0.00762752 1976
0.01748036 1977
0.01626868 1978
0.02494541 1979
0.01544131 1980
0.02280646 1981
0.01578891 1982
0.01815732 1983
0.01833537 1984
0.02438305 1985
0.01015804 1986
0.00935894 1987
0.00734487 1988
0.00656897 1989
0.00863318 1990
0.00389565 1991
0.00358026 1992
0.00329343 1993
0.00212164 1994
0.00130978 1995
0.0014831 1996
0.00356203 1997
0.0020837 1998
0.00295322 1999
0.00631273 2000
0.00389679 2001
0.00482094 2002
0.00351833 2003
0.00447676 2004
0.0040207 2005
0.00623683 2006
0.00648886 2007
0.00616442 2008
0.00325837 2009
0.00546877 2010
0.00726866 2011
0.00528453 2012
0.00535818 2013
0.00272008 2014
0.00142731 2015
0.00113281 2016
0.00131078 2017
0.00175487 2018
0.00137237 2019
0.00083957 2020
0.00101119 2021
2022
Morocco | 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source