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
1971 0.000147
1972 0.00020337
1973 0.00048528
1974 0.00272731
1975 0.00270249
1976 0.00345249
1977 0.00495105
1978 0.00369535
1979 0.00862415
1980 0.00967885
1981 0.00864757
1982 0.00560038
1983 0.12109638
1984 0.25502899
1985 0.39820164
1986 0.16594563
1987 0.17825349
1988 0.12427326
1989 0.30573698
1990 0.39045899
1991 0.20462844
1992 0.22229734
1993 0.19133495
1994 0.1525589
1995 0.13505546
1996 0.18167775
1997 0.22345976
1998 0.14706596
1999 0.25944493
2000 0.68731315
2001 0.52420758
2002 0.52634221
2003 0.65553954
2004 0.81827091
2005 1.35907507
2006 1.53654839
2007 1.36661103
2008 1.90791787
2009 1.0073562
2010 1.33378084
2011 1.77251079
2012 1.64099047
2013 1.43416971
2014 1.25645532
2015 0.53371242
2016 0.42912167
2017 0.52782322
2018 0.68080472
2019 0.45989094
2020 0.17393082
2021 0.48165787
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