Iran - Oil rents (% of GDP)

Oil rents (% of GDP) in Iran was 20.41 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 48 years was 49.32 in 1974, while its lowest value was 3.94 in 1986.

Definition: Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil production at world prices and total costs of production.

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 13.59
1971 17.12
1972 18.48
1973 19.87
1974 49.32
1975 38.20
1976 35.32
1977 30.33
1978 29.79
1979 33.74
1980 20.89
1981 14.40
1982 14.69
1983 13.33
1984 11.23
1985 10.10
1986 3.94
1987 9.61
1988 8.44
1989 15.17
1990 21.47
1993 29.00
1994 23.96
1995 19.47
1996 19.69
1997 18.67
1998 11.94
1999 17.24
2000 31.39
2001 22.31
2002 20.72
2003 22.07
2004 25.25
2005 32.37
2006 31.95
2007 25.35
2008 30.04
2009 17.30
2010 20.53
2011 24.76
2012 20.19
2013 23.15
2014 23.11
2015 12.77
2016 11.84
2017 15.90
2018 20.41

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