Myanmar | 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
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Records
63
Source
Myanmar | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0 1970
0.00340964 1971
0.00479217 1972
0.00863126 1973
0.2489617 1974
0.41805749 1975
0.5971174 1976
0.59507632 1977
0.86995088 1978
1.22188078 1979
1.32964303 1980
0.57819336 1981
0.21261687 1982
0.46505577 1983
0.76359802 1984
1.22757981 1985
2.12854823 1986
2.15688269 1987
1.7373921 1988
1.65433377 1989
1.82653977 1990
1.39571769 1991
1.43038034 1992
1.44373877 1993
1.5643972 1994
1.46070698 1995
1.41036753 1996
1.40741174 1997
1.44765762 1998
1.27486862 1999
3.24243847 2000
6.67584866 2001
7.08826701 2002
8.04869868 2003
8.14214333 2004
9.26676467 2005
7.11993514 2006
5.57960172 2007
3.82889757 2008
2.68196178 2009
2.39365031 2010
1.83559799 2011
1.64277524 2012
1.59345179 2013
2.48423798 2014
3.15576965 2015
2.61215166 2016
2.58866846 2017
3.24961569 2018
3.2318636 2019
2.1642759 2020
4.39650989 2021
2022
Myanmar | 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
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Records
63
Source