Equatorial Guinea - Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)

Total natural resources rents (% of GDP) in Equatorial Guinea was 30.91 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 62.04 in 1999, while its lowest value was 3.11 in 1971.

Definition: Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents.

Source: Estimates based on sources and methods described in "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (World Bank, 2011).

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Year Value
1970 14.61
1971 3.11
1972 3.63
1973 4.59
1974 4.60
1975 5.34
1976 4.42
1977 6.54
1980 18.09
1981 27.00
1982 33.36
1983 25.89
1984 19.61
1985 17.07
1986 19.52
1987 19.95
1988 16.33
1989 20.47
1990 20.99
1991 17.01
1992 20.12
1993 28.09
1994 43.38
1995 44.06
1996 55.66
1997 60.52
1998 43.56
1999 62.04
2006 56.08
2007 49.68
2008 47.83
2009 29.93
2010 37.97
2011 41.52
2012 39.72
2013 34.91
2014 28.99
2015 17.98
2016 16.12
2017 23.48
2018 30.02
2019 30.91

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.

Limitations and Exceptions: This definition of economic rent differs from that used in the System of National Accounts, where rents are a form of property income, consisting of payments to landowners by a tenant for the use of the land or payments to the owners of subsoil assets by institutional units permitting them to extract subsoil deposits.

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 world price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs (including a normal return on capital). 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).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Natural resources contribution to GDP