Morocco | 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source
Morocco | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
0.00771668 1971
0.00852752 1972
0.00875949 1973
0.00872944 1974
0.01269566 1975
0.01345926 1976
0.01556717 1977
0.01419015 1978
0.01727495 1979
0.01033235 1980
0.01391936 1981
0.0049967 1982
0.01741308 1983
0.01702602 1984
0.01833965 1985
0.01462637 1986
0.00934503 1987
0.00825298 1988
0.00582313 1989
0.00523124 1990
0.00299617 1991
0.0018044 1992
0.00196485 1993
0.0017957 1994
0.00111641 1995
0.00140103 1996
0.00303059 1997
0.00289316 1998
0.00321518 1999
0.00505602 2000
0.00552668 2001
0.00428651 2002
0.00323576 2003
0.00439367 2004
0.00357718 2005
0.00538871 2006
0.00522669 2007
0.00384883 2008
0.00327046 2009
0.00368849 2010
0.00487176 2011
0.0069041 2012
0.00794804 2013
0.00687829 2014
0.00432368 2015
0.00295472 2016
0.00340503 2017
0.00539924 2018
0.00587225 2019
0.0063193 2020
0.00921347 2021
2022
Morocco | 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
Kingdom of Morocco
Records
63
Source