India | 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
Republic of India
Records
63
Source
India | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.01109401 1970
0.00899262 1971
0.0075671 1972
0.0065348 1973
0.00823682 1974
0.01427274 1975
0.01908349 1976
0.01964612 1977
0.01385451 1978
0.00973995 1979
0.01049376 1980
0.0018268 1981
0 1982
0.00919171 1983
0.00364468 1984
0.00413947 1985
0.0207657 1986
0.02294084 1987
0.02142642 1988
0.04292174 1989
0.05895994 1990
0.05665414 1991
0.0605821 1992
0.07083832 1993
0.07847616 1994
0.08949942 1995
0.09725848 1996
0.08926824 1997
0.10469367 1998
0.12143181 1999
0.17490829 2000
0.1530246 2001
0.22857573 2002
0.21253335 2003
0.20388944 2004
0.2206266 2005
0.19861066 2006
0.09888126 2007
0.10082474 2008
0.1398846 2009
0.15805347 2010
0.17141034 2011
0.15029704 2012
0.09350651 2013
0.08446385 2014
0.06891963 2015
0.06076164 2016
0.06164442 2017
0.06602389 2018
0.07022569 2019
0.06751429 2020
0.07749371 2021
2022
India | 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
Republic of India
Records
63
Source