India | 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
Republic of India
Records
63
Source
India | Coal rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
0.21491983 1971
0.23475043 1972
0.24638368 1973
0.46997968 1974
1.17509868 1975
1.22146649 1976
1.06095509 1977
0.83284168 1978
0.75568836 1979
0.91984783 1980
1.43688473 1981
1.56172086 1982
0.97660073 1983
0.87823154 1984
0.87880773 1985
0.67495795 1986
0.4145009 1987
0.52568255 1988
0.69309972 1989
0.7680575 1990
0.9742355 1991
0.84050082 1992
0.61205072 1993
0.5739752 1994
0.8637648 1995
0.77442852 1996
0.66385952 1997
0.52912078 1998
0.36781897 1999
0.49376859 2000
0.80391772 2001
0.56899761 2002
0.57374246 2003
1.35785293 2004
1.09839599 2005
1.102749 2006
1.1890023 2007
2.84447501 2008
1.38813219 2009
1.63399934 2010
2.00973995 2011
1.4844844 2012
1.21260035 2013
0.98260699 2014
0.76786951 2015
0.81269479 2016
0.94448046 2017
1.16154281 2018
0.83165135 2019
0.69992857 2020
1.2802917 2021
2022
India | 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
Republic of India
Records
63
Source