Thailand | 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 Thailand
Records
63
Source
Thailand | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
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1969
0 1970
0 1971
0 1972
0 1973
0 1974
0 1975
0 1976
0 1977
0 1978
0 1979
0 1980
0.01537955 1981
0.02152915 1982
0.04777608 1983
0.08881613 1984
0.18863874 1985
0.2548934 1986
0.26645782 1987
0.21663114 1988
0.20436962 1989
0.24974485 1990
0.2247223 1991
0.22901299 1992
0.26241238 1993
0.29098568 1994
0.2761672 1995
0.35036521 1996
0.53995516 1997
0.56242466 1998
0.60565558 1999
0.99488284 2000
0.92507714 2001
0.76229756 2002
0.89337552 2003
0.93800428 2004
0.910767 2005
0.71063062 2006
0.6139739 2007
0.69343159 2008
0.64370012 2009
0.67195438 2010
0.61107795 2011
0.6513577 2012
0.65318157 2013
0.91194634 2014
0.90216145 2015
0.62753264 2016
0.55273294 2017
0.71765709 2018
0.70046615 2019
0.54393778 2020
0.9395531 2021
2022
Thailand | 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 Thailand
Records
63
Source