Thailand | 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
Kingdom of Thailand
Records
63
Source
Thailand | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1.11813278 1970
1.03267592 1971
1.49120592 1972
2.30164957 1973
2.27658465 1974
1.77292449 1975
1.68996207 1976
2.23420163 1977
1.81097206 1978
2.45153532 1979
2.27082745 1980
1.30370985 1981
1.283522 1982
1.23098552 1983
1.16489161 1984
1.46043796 1985
1.2169623 1986
1.1932289 1987
1.40066438 1988
1.37641658 1989
1.20375711 1990
0.8097329 1991
0.84272555 1992
0.72807227 1993
0.73782073 1994
0.79469861 1995
0.8846541 1996
1.11948972 1997
1.13200555 1998
1.10201089 1999
2.03569798 2000
1.94127428 2001
1.74432562 2002
2.2916114 2003
2.39381751 2004
2.84717141 2005
2.88566054 2006
2.75732969 2007
3.62309704 2008
2.40093157 2009
2.73568032 2010
3.14709998 2011
2.90571167 2012
2.61852748 2013
2.82282717 2014
1.93092321 2015
1.55321888 2016
1.63215261 2017
1.81670643 2018
1.51242491 2019
1.1095684 2020
1.81702653 2021
2022
Thailand | 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
Kingdom of Thailand
Records
63
Source