Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Late-demographic dividend | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.00702558 1970
0.0314855 1971
0.03887968 1972
0.04153473 1973
0.10729737 1974
0.20674379 1975
0.239391 1976
0.2371196 1977
0.32002848 1978
0.33183139 1979
0.35539016 1980
0.18362804 1981
0.06432708 1982
0.19430995 1983
0.23025008 1984
0.26767114 1985
0.35702499 1986
0.34499147 1987
0.54017549 1988
0.45468839 1989
0.63373839 1990
0.48592255 1991
0.32314208 1992
0.51652798 1993
0.4861925 1994
0.61808357 1995
0.56669219 1996
0.58473748 1997
0.23271282 1998
0.27230457 1999
0.66103977 2000
1.01656098 2001
0.78364279 2002
0.79342618 2003
0.68206643 2004
0.59382721 2005
0.80936957 2006
0.6751816 2007
0.87439198 2008
0.66831323 2009
0.57246596 2010
0.71384541 2011
0.6894362 2012
0.65124123 2013
0.53282113 2014
0.46488268 2015
0.31641158 2016
0.3614054 2017
0.54267574 2018
0.46800211 2019
0.33748229 2020
0.80532078 2021
2022
Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source