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