United Arab Emirates | 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
United Arab Emirates
Records
63
Source
United Arab Emirates | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
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1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
37.58149556 1975
37.02634437 1976
31.15046187 1977
31.95051161 1978
56.67173525 1979
42.32741065 1980
33.40866984 1981
23.01154048 1982
24.27984422 1983
26.43536976 1984
24.66529302 1985
18.36663638 1986
24.30872586 1987
21.7546746 1988
30.0841004 1989
36.60270007 1990
24.93551186 1991
24.75940602 1992
22.15052226 1993
18.26348022 1994
17.87533681 1995
20.71956215 1996
18.6806268 1997
12.52788253 1998
14.85476356 1999
22.38441772 2000
17.59639666 2001
16.23762837 2002
19.20611287 2003
22.221017 2004
25.33437477 2005
27.2052072 2006
24.93720636 2007
27.71491227 2008
19.71346172 2009
23.77687049 2010
29.77895683 2011
28.21446697 2012
27.3813114 2013
23.97392577 2014
14.04680896 2015
11.80551958 2016
14.32784244 2017
18.18668249 2018
16.895899 2019
11.97223352 2020
17.63409585 2021
2022
United Arab Emirates | 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
United Arab Emirates
Records
63
Source