Myanmar | Coal rents (% of GDP)
Coal rents are the difference between the value of both hard and soft coal production at world prices and their 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 the Union of Myanmar
Records
63
Source
Myanmar | Coal rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
0.00024724 1971
0.00026704 1972
0.0002676 1973
0.00372859 1974
0.01410197 1975
0.0120718 1976
0.01972061 1977
0.0282672 1978
0.02774804 1979
0.03622202 1980
0.09334115 1981
0.10563522 1982
0.05379818 1983
0.04729469 1984
0.06037629 1985
0.02838409 1986
0.00268788 1987
0.01255199 1988
0.01666539 1989
0.01937917 1990
0.01676176 1991
0.00784779 1992
0.00084627 1993
0.00070407 1994
0.00226701 1995
0.00088711 1996
0.00046092 1997
0.00114095 1998
0.00220662 1999
0.01134305 2000
0.07580519 2001
0.01526969 2002
0.01947426 2003
0.12528531 2004
0.09238158 2005
0.11201403 2006
0.15015759 2007
0.22170714 2008
0.05009723 2009
0.08637038 2010
0.08602363 2011
0.05645733 2012
0.02703697 2013
0.02514792 2014
0.0151773 2015
0.00859612 2016
0.01542986 2017
0.02945887 2018
0.03409268 2019
0.02429251 2020
0.04643373 2021
2022
Myanmar | Coal rents (% of GDP)
Coal rents are the difference between the value of both hard and soft coal production at world prices and their 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 the Union of Myanmar
Records
63
Source