Myanmar | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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 | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 7.56598226
1971 7.95560274
1972 10.24159896
1973 21.71338957
1974 20.46444599
1975 19.92040755
1976 21.26323282
1977 31.38530498
1978 33.98300176
1979 65.38180018
1980 69.22861249
1981 44.55799952
1982 34.67680833
1983 32.6731835
1984 29.40701108
1985 29.99225269
1986 21.3508418
1987 25.88629136
1988 26.07455646
1989 21.20644846
1990 25.52338311
1991 24.88043247
1992 29.36859448
1993 20.08509271
1994 17.22758569
1995 19.06754324
1996 16.98860998
1997 15.08307123
1998 14.65210091
1999 9.2937269
2000 10.84565692
2001 15.83044119
2002 17.40191897
2003 20.18394344
2004 18.86446102
2005 18.78204886
2006 17.75773692
2007 15.81462379
2008 13.96412005
2009 8.97077902
2010 7.98804207
2011 7.36146335
2012 5.95623958
2013 5.85283366
2014 7.88242876
2015 6.61317909
2016 6.81087216
2017 7.82010372
2018 6.70278022
2019 5.88188183
2020 4.66301427
2021 8.67850381
2022
Myanmar | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
Total natural resources rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents. 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