Thailand | Oil rents (% of GDP)
Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil 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 | Oil rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
0.000147 1971
0.00020337 1972
0.00048528 1973
0.00272731 1974
0.00270249 1975
0.00345249 1976
0.00495105 1977
0.00369535 1978
0.00862415 1979
0.00967885 1980
0.00864757 1981
0.00560038 1982
0.12109638 1983
0.25502899 1984
0.39820164 1985
0.16594563 1986
0.17825349 1987
0.12427326 1988
0.30573698 1989
0.39045899 1990
0.20462844 1991
0.22229734 1992
0.19133495 1993
0.1525589 1994
0.13505546 1995
0.18167775 1996
0.22345976 1997
0.14706596 1998
0.25944493 1999
0.68731315 2000
0.52420758 2001
0.52634221 2002
0.65553954 2003
0.81827091 2004
1.35907507 2005
1.53654839 2006
1.36661103 2007
1.90791787 2008
1.0073562 2009
1.33378084 2010
1.77251079 2011
1.64099047 2012
1.43416971 2013
1.25645532 2014
0.53371242 2015
0.42912167 2016
0.52782322 2017
0.68080472 2018
0.45989094 2019
0.17393082 2020
0.48165787 2021
2022
Thailand | Oil rents (% of GDP)
Oil rents are the difference between the value of crude oil 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