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