India | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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 | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.72115048 1970
0.89006396 1971
0.87309306 1972
0.99512724 1973
1.63322039 1974
3.12530676 1975
3.00845728 1976
3.9779916 1977
3.40167543 1978
3.29774175 1979
2.87592822 1980
3.9044354 1981
4.10859969 1982
3.49819359 1983
3.33128373 1984
3.47022923 1985
2.37827002 1986
2.16185028 1987
2.06185517 1988
2.83144585 1989
3.39867123 1990
3.10011402 1991
2.79705478 1992
2.44189723 1993
2.1094415 1994
2.52791051 1995
2.48487037 1996
2.2061911 1997
1.78883328 1998
1.85009642 1999
2.46830054 2000
2.43620876 2001
2.34136271 2002
2.22671509 2003
3.16931676 2004
3.6587436 2005
3.93368584 2006
4.44228488 2007
7.10934832 2008
3.36239161 2009
4.49751864 2010
5.30507567 2011
4.02383769 2012
3.67308833 2013
2.81368985 2014
1.77764002 2015
1.74839024 2016
1.98393402 2017
2.25531632 2018
2.01224538 2019
1.78466921 2020
3.15934538 2021
2022
India | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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