France | 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
French Republic
Records
63
Source
France | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.01169313 1970
0.01367297 1971
0.01598472 1972
0.0101774 1973
0.03001563 1974
0.03381642 1975
0.0330267 1976
0.03284806 1977
0.02975084 1978
0.04058875 1979
0.04720237 1980
0.03312223 1981
0.01501383 1982
0.02766726 1983
0.02765357 1984
0.02056138 1985
0.01171981 1986
0.00471309 1987
0.00313418 1988
0.00321047 1989
0.00394149 1990
0.0031746 1991
0.00148817 1992
0.00365224 1993
0.00343134 1994
0.00525536 1995
0.00434478 1996
0.0045927 1997
0.00050052 1998
0.000447 1999
0.00299507 2000
0.00635784 2001
0.00423334 2002
0.00332236 2003
0.00220835 2004
0.00148807 2005
0.00366446 2006
0.00285428 2007
0.00416381 2008
0.00300131 2009
0.00232972 2010
0.00258652 2011
0.00258289 2012
0.00154932 2013
4.719E-5 2014
6.238E-5 2015
3.445E-5 2016
3.582E-5 2017
2.925E-5 2018
3.847E-5 2019
2.139E-5 2020
0.0001378 2021
2022
France | 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
French Republic
Records
63
Source