Greece | 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
Hellenic Republic
Records
63
Source
Greece | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
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1962
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1964
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1966
1967
1968
1969
0 1970
0 1971
0 1972
0 1973
0 1974
0 1975
0 1976
0 1977
0 1978
0 1979
0 1980
0.00256569 1981
0.00211075 1982
0.0038777 1983
0.00438069 1984
0.00377564 1985
0.00443768 1986
0.0022846 1987
0.00208131 1988
0.00215612 1989
0.00280593 1990
0.00183097 1991
0.0008131 1992
0.00143185 1993
0.00066357 1994
0.00096566 1995
0.00092022 1996
0.00098357 1997
0.00011421 1998
7.05E-6 1999
0.00088147 2000
0.00171117 2001
0.00120308 2002
0.00073241 2003
0.00050402 2004
0.00026549 2005
0.00076323 2006
0.00057373 2007
0.00061886 2008
0.00037545 2009
0.00024438 2010
0.00033276 2011
0.00043734 2012
0.00036576 2013
0.00024838 2014
0.00019133 2015
0.00023502 2016
0.00029813 2017
0.00062943 2018
0.00034076 2019
0.00012825 2020
0.00038517 2021
2022
Greece | 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
Hellenic Republic
Records
63
Source