Algeria | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
Natural gas rents are the difference between the value of natural gas 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
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Records
63
Source
Algeria | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.35886102
1971 0.37165747
1972 0.36787317
1973 0.37226124
1974 0.30304039
1975 0.60971725
1976 0.68142379
1977 0.67482074
1978 0.96288095
1979 1.9779086
1980 0.9004783
1981 1.38730987
1982 0.63899345
1983 2.50313856
1984 2.10265108
1985 1.87837993
1986 1.78713222
1987 1.71933652
1988 2.12536477
1989 2.30704786
1990 2.40895526
1991 3.3857652
1992 3.14568293
1993 3.05243084
1994 3.58109423
1995 4.46124812
1996 4.63271636
1997 5.32789947
1998 5.29640842
1999 5.50096125
2000 6.3614314
2001 6.77330449
2002 5.62628428
2003 4.62266033
2004 3.90735998
2005 4.6282943
2006 4.48809355
2007 3.9242968
2008 3.31233808
2009 3.9916714
2010 3.25358685
2011 3.27268025
2012 3.36687426
2013 3.15384902
2014 3.05690209
2015 2.90603072
2016 2.56694843
2017 2.9680679
2018 4.64378705
2019 4.23642792
2020 4.8384962
2021 7.99572862
2022
Algeria | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
Natural gas rents are the difference between the value of natural gas 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
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Records
63
Source