Bangladesh | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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 | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.32656089 1970
0.30476346 1971
0.38244802 1972
0.54982775 1973
0.42369175 1974
0.58449558 1975
0.76737175 1976
2.56785261 1977
1.82496299 1978
0.69395631 1979
0.76613547 1980
0.54674413 1981
0.87043753 1982
0.68611674 1983
0.53575769 1984
0.33544582 1985
0.66810016 1986
0.58109066 1987
0.5494966 1988
0.61585537 1989
0.68651071 1990
0.62802718 1991
0.65470427 1992
0.58273254 1993
0.60005714 1994
0.66890998 1995
0.59005505 1996
0.51115781 1997
0.5378038 1998
0.66366937 1999
0.92367014 2000
0.95102951 2001
1.1563158 2002
1.17267032 2003
1.25033088 2004
1.42150861 2005
1.6219145 2006
1.28014684 2007
1.24590842 2008
1.19267877 2009
1.4159097 2010
1.58942507 2011
1.55456977 2012
1.15168389 2013
1.04718075 2014
0.89981388 2015
0.71614076 2016
0.71042001 2017
0.64923882 2018
0.63771756 2019
0.5608677 2020
0.61006918 2021
2022
Bangladesh | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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