Bangladesh | 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 Republic of Bangladesh
Records
63
Source
Bangladesh | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.03303399
1971 0.04402908
1972 0.05095124
1973 0.05726182
1974 0.04815442
1975 0.02978248
1976 0.09890791
1977 0.1408572
1978 0.07397261
1979 0.05779422
1980 0.09620857
1981 0.01319065
1982 0
1983 0.07509506
1984 0.02916565
1985 0.02930887
1986 0.13623557
1987 0.14082132
1988 0.11014806
1989 0.21159903
1990 0.24391916
1991 0.1842371
1992 0.21353258
1993 0.23535065
1994 0.28761643
1995 0.32438707
1996 0.30375468
1997 0.27124032
1998 0.31679945
1999 0.43009581
2000 0.68735083
2001 0.69948303
2002 0.88528743
2003 0.90807195
2004 0.9814895
2005 1.16332572
2006 1.28689069
2007 0.78358856
2008 0.71240071
2009 0.85169094
2010 0.89844484
2011 1.05122541
2012 1.06632456
2013 0.78131638
2014 0.73705326
2015 0.62814095
2016 0.49062992
2017 0.50916251
2018 0.50178363
2019 0.51699831
2020 0.45700785
2021 0.49005481
2022
Bangladesh | 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 Republic of Bangladesh
Records
63
Source