Czechia | Coal rents (% of GDP)
Coal rents are the difference between the value of both hard and soft coal production at world prices and their 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
Czechia
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63
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Czechia | Coal rents (% of GDP)
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1.37922206 1990
1.65795437 1991
1.06027907 1992
0.49051878 1993
0.27575618 1994
0.34051567 1995
0.28161325 1996
0.2541727 1997
0.23177077 1998
0.105524 1999
0.20584219 2000
0.45670466 2001
0.22441113 2002
0.1693314 2003
0.65472408 2004
0.54024605 2005
0.52827597 2006
0.45665098 2007
1.3243839 2008
0.52380914 2009
0.76882815 2010
0.87376383 2011
0.43376993 2012
0.17834804 2013
0.14654735 2014
0.12546375 2015
0.12684044 2016
0.14384614 2017
0.13310503 2018
0.09103323 2019
0.05442229 2020
0.09393636 2021
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Czechia | Coal rents (% of GDP)
Coal rents are the difference between the value of both hard and soft coal production at world prices and their 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
Czechia
Records
63
Source