Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source
Japan | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0 1970
0.00154618 1971
0.00177111 1972
0.00213929 1973
0.00923803 1974
0.0142011 1975
0.01361751 1976
0.01166975 1977
0.00892964 1978
0.0110453 1979
0.00933648 1980
0.00340226 1981
0.00120109 1982
0.00225268 1983
0.00279809 1984
0.00351499 1985
0.0034679 1986
0.00256995 1987
0.00171627 1988
0.00184351 1989
0.00261203 1990
0.00200857 1991
0.00196853 1992
0.00210785 1993
0.00215477 1994
0.00198079 1995
0.00258804 1996
0.00306615 1997
0.00241314 1998
0.00236082 1999
0.0036993 2000
0.00380597 2001
0.00383014 2002
0.00461007 2003
0.00509653 2004
0.00558075 2005
0.00574036 2006
0.00620308 2007
0.00611778 2008
0.00547499 2009
0.00516617 2010
0.00529773 2011
0.00481474 2012
0.0047763 2013
0.0062921 2014
0.00750712 2015
0.00501933 2016
0.00554716 2017
0.00711272 2018
0.00645253 2019
0.00484052 2020
0.008807 2021
2022
Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source