Angola | 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
Republic of Angola
Records
63
Source
Angola | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
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1979
0.0303699 1980
0.02114584 1981
0.00745083 1982
0.02452085 1983
0.02521862 1984
0.0203255 1985
0.02949132 1986
0.02504471 1987
0.02095961 1988
0.02273993 1989
0.07958722 1990
0.07843585 1991
0.09059577 1992
0.16084421 1993
0.22146733 1994
0.20651928 1995
0.15973421 1996
0.15856618 1997
0.13644119 1998
0.16142883 1999
0.19630064 2000
0.21059411 2001
0.13190039 2002
0.13511355 2003
0.12379756 2004
0.03670778 2005
0.08014859 2006
0.07569035 2007
0.05663588 2008
0.06191949 2009
0.06334246 2010
0.0704816 2011
0.06469147 2012
0.06899845 2013
0.05089809 2014
0.06044056 2015
0.15876632 2016
0.47616201 2017
0.74554243 2018
0.81408385 2019
0.87675838 2020
1.01234906 2021
2022
Angola | 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
Republic of Angola
Records
63
Source