Morocco | 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source
Morocco | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.90217127 1970
0.75690678 1971
0.46632925 1972
0.82759337 1973
10.4614509 1974
8.01134785 1975
3.25833779 1976
7.11034569 1977
1.8001045 1978
2.0860866 1979
1.93240909 1980
2.7853838 1981
2.6223905 1982
2.49010263 1983
2.01272468 1984
2.28857541 1985
1.24324093 1986
0.65294323 1987
2.61040025 1988
0.54954098 1989
0.44655634 1990
0.47046354 1991
0.40291713 1992
0.31187482 1993
0.3983091 1994
0.46883254 1995
0.38001963 1996
0.39601922 1997
0.41809404 1998
0.2789073 1999
0.30532535 2000
0.20899847 2001
0.19463337 2002
0.24273895 2003
0.57019059 2004
0.73918961 2005
1.17487784 2006
1.48111641 2007
6.01356403 2008
4.04625319 2009
5.52351712 2010
7.44006663 2011
6.48582252 2012
4.55138704 2013
3.52679772 2014
2.61402225 2015
2.89821223 2016
3.29989896 2017
2.4138979 2018
0.32178051 2019
0.29612824 2020
0.39170293 2021
2022

Morocco | 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source