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
0.35886102 1970
0.37165747 1971
0.36787317 1972
0.37226124 1973
0.30304039 1974
0.60971725 1975
0.68142379 1976
0.67482074 1977
0.96288095 1978
1.9779086 1979
0.9004783 1980
1.38730987 1981
0.63899345 1982
2.50313856 1983
2.10265108 1984
1.87837993 1985
1.78713222 1986
1.71933652 1987
2.12536477 1988
2.30704786 1989
2.40895526 1990
3.3857652 1991
3.14568293 1992
3.05243084 1993
3.58109423 1994
4.46124812 1995
4.63271636 1996
5.32789947 1997
5.29640842 1998
5.50096125 1999
6.3614314 2000
6.77330449 2001
5.62628428 2002
4.62266033 2003
3.90735998 2004
4.6282943 2005
4.48809355 2006
3.9242968 2007
3.31233808 2008
3.9916714 2009
3.25358685 2010
3.27268025 2011
3.36687426 2012
3.15384902 2013
3.05690209 2014
2.90603072 2015
2.56694843 2016
2.9680679 2017
4.64378705 2018
4.23642792 2019
4.8384962 2020
7.99572862 2021
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