Colombia | 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 Colombia
Records
63
Source
Colombia | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.00519021 1970
0.00807088 1971
0.00943244 1972
0.00807807 1973
0.05202348 1974
0.08019177 1975
0.06818536 1976
0.00451675 1977
0.01188281 1978
0.07619205 1979
0.17909935 1980
0.10736744 1981
0.02114842 1982
0.11116554 1983
0.17612121 1984
0.19006706 1985
0.15905983 1986
0.11030706 1987
0.09376866 1988
0.11349692 1989
0.12382788 1990
0.1002031 1991
0.07361254 1992
0.08346454 1993
0.06077428 1994
0.0460974 1995
0.04731611 1996
0.0539553 1997
0.04709019 1998
0.06467362 1999
0.11151528 2000
0.11912883 2001
0.09435434 2002
0.07356302 2003
0.06249971 2004
0.10044584 2005
0.13800374 2006
0.13752022 2007
0.15384659 2008
0.20501654 2009
0.12622735 2010
0.23552855 2011
0.24519996 2012
0.27873333 2013
0.24986814 2014
0.1542688 2015
0.06251587 2016
0.07401346 2017
0.17448138 2018
0.19571942 2019
0.12498043 2020
0.17598827 2021
2022
Colombia | 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 Colombia
Records
63
Source