Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Early-demographic dividend | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.0731439 1970
0.06534654 1971
0.05931025 1972
0.06412522 1973
0.07014015 1974
0.14018771 1975
0.1382948 1976
0.13125922 1977
0.16162381 1978
0.26318671 1979
0.24476808 1980
0.16140464 1981
0.06256795 1982
0.24092671 1983
0.27420491 1984
0.28480981 1985
0.32875942 1986
0.36033892 1987
0.33852105 1988
0.37919553 1989
0.45510828 1990
0.36948007 1991
0.31695875 1992
0.37917436 1993
0.38669314 1994
0.42836412 1995
0.45680115 1996
0.46286016 1997
0.38091873 1998
0.40586448 1999
0.60015598 2000
0.70592935 2001
0.67559252 2002
0.67012246 2003
0.62825251 2004
0.70437633 2005
0.75170147 2006
0.64450797 2007
0.69338409 2008
0.68955435 2009
0.56812541 2010
0.71588941 2011
0.72074847 2012
0.70413478 2013
0.66223533 2014
0.54427331 2015
0.39421077 2016
0.44376105 2017
0.70215728 2018
0.6664328 2019
0.61185916 2020
0.89664105 2021
2022
Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source