Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source
Argentina | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.00568502 1970
0.00945431 1971
0.00914104 1972
0.00646767 1973
0.03749075 1974
0.1030993 1975
0.09883802 1976
0.00681125 1977
0.0162549 1978
0.08504756 1979
0.19660172 1980
0.14453639 1981
0.03280488 1982
0.16112389 1983
0.26323765 1984
0.23227334 1985
0.16971574 1986
0.12126807 1987
0.11290376 1988
0.2575319 1989
0.1560022 1990
0.10521749 1991
0.07913192 1992
0.10119157 1993
0.08329825 1994
0.08103882 1995
0.08470158 1996
0.08209489 1997
0.07155227 1998
0.14537012 1999
0.28282101 2000
0.29987415 2001
0.64682712 2002
0.41564119 2003
0.33321452 2004
0.51872229 2005
0.63333283 2006
0.6055096 2007
0.51320596 2008
0.5753367 2009
0.30948488 2010
0.53882731 2011
0.54403686 2012
0.55712911 2013
0.53532528 2014
0.24680823 2015
0.11923834 2016
0.13219271 2017
0.40132211 2018
0.52355934 2019
0.2982697 2020
0.38939712 2021
2022
Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source