Venezuela, RB | Oil rents (% of GDP)
Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at regional prices and total costs of production. 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
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Records
63
Source
Venezuela, RB | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
4.79927245 1970
6.78719223 1971
6.69174635 1972
10.28667392 1973
33.34022783 1974
24.02336222 1975
22.15094 1976
15.74383483 1977
15.4615218 1978
35.9005908 1979
33.56693178 1980
24.18057665 1981
12.71850865 1982
16.54769067 1983
18.31914983 1984
15.60946328 1985
7.36089191 1986
15.22459766 1987
9.50512761 1988
20.03335154 1989
28.06002506 1990
15.62867174 1991
14.93509528 1992
14.96993274 1993
15.38660421 1994
14.55595451 1995
23.06487811 1996
17.50464867 1997
8.57137562 1998
12.83876383 1999
20.00115697 2000
14.80978128 2001
18.74804897 2002
21.17795812 2003
23.08903959 2004
28.05387459 2005
26.81865676 2006
21.6186473 2007
22.67378478 2008
9.95847654 2009
11.69289755 2010
23.14501953 2011
17.93878237 2012
16.77713883 2013
11.30215117 2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Venezuela, RB | Oil rents (% of GDP)
Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at regional prices and total costs of production. 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
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Records
63
Source