Cuba | 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 Cuba
Records
63
Source
Cuba | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
4.056E-5 1971
4.36E-5 1972
7.322E-5 1973
0.00063694 1974
0.00093248 1975
0.00106277 1976
6.108E-5 1977
7.169E-5 1978
0.00072775 1979
0.00181724 1980
0.00081771 1981
0.00013214 1982
0.0005309 1983
0.00021674 1984
0.00046704 1985
0.00035835 1986
0.00091291 1987
0.00067561 1988
0.00128453 1989
0.00155193 1990
0.00130122 1991
0.0009076 1992
0.00122109 1993
0.00071495 1994
0.00050759 1995
0.00073356 1996
0.0013867 1997
0.00350495 1998
0.01711505 1999
0.0359991 2000
0.03536266 2001
0.02561726 2002
0.02055007 2003
0.02080049 2004
0.03748852 2005
0.06766056 2006
0.08169603 2007
0.08372797 2008
0.0895315 2009
0.05673094 2010
0.10444823 2011
0.105749 2012
0.11276463 2013
0.10957803 2014
0.05325375 2015
0.0207658 2016
0.02322764 2017
0.04941827 2018
0.0497038 2019
0.02442944 2020
2021
2022
Cuba | 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 Cuba
Records
63
Source