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