Uganda | 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
Republic of Uganda
Records
63
Source
Uganda | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
8.80478954 1970
6.66692828 1971
7.16171549 1972
10.62718599 1973
9.72443659 1974
10.90643384 1975
9.80366902 1976
14.37104187 1977
18.52125708 1978
20.90134992 1979
44.65685148 1980
36.73080353 1981
31.21397348 1982
20.08562161 1983
11.46241315 1984
8.93281206 1985
12.73789723 1986
7.78871225 1987
8.15709709 1988
10.32938055 1989
15.8107071 1990
20.60209374 1991
25.23549924 1992
19.49930421 1993
19.00344038 1994
19.50946075 1995
18.58246812 1996
16.85004386 1997
16.79184843 1998
12.4637725 1999
12.04941439 2000
12.46439317 2001
14.24812016 2002
20.88523024 2003
15.19256298 2004
13.92395612 2005
13.25196696 2006
16.16407964 2007
16.4379946 2008
9.46245874 2009
8.10229439 2010
9.15620849 2011
10.6585708 2012
10.65861038 2013
10.33123197 2014
10.79475761 2015
12.73365131 2016
12.13051474 2017
8.38888218 2018
7.38833938 2019
7.56349042 2020
7.47552032 2021
2022

Uganda | 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
Republic of Uganda
Records
63
Source