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