Togo | 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
Togolese Republic
Records
63
Source
Togo | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 6.38800581
1971 4.97557072
1972 4.87646389
1973 6.78043653
1974 21.36535391
1975 15.48888745
1976 11.06598308
1977 23.10635976
1978 9.99923875
1979 9.29110311
1980 9.92010964
1981 11.01593336
1982 14.87228041
1983 11.08883747
1984 9.56439314
1985 7.87100479
1986 7.1532188
1987 5.59683136
1988 5.59521461
1989 5.85673981
1990 6.11169329
1991 6.29687125
1992 6.23238966
1993 7.36144125
1994 11.10599912
1995 12.62685673
1996 11.25173023
1997 10.67538865
1998 10.38014581
1999 6.80166561
2000 7.14401583
2001 6.64861942
2002 6.84815672
2003 9.30157253
2004 6.31025985
2005 6.87103076
2006 8.39328796
2007 10.54848439
2008 15.15456273
2009 14.67529636
2010 11.30762843
2011 17.92481057
2012 20.99368899
2013 15.56532009
2014 13.3950716
2015 12.72800872
2016 9.00310957
2017 7.77733836
2018 4.8736233
2019 4.32587636
2020 4.73168572
2021 7.8641742
2022
Togo | 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
Togolese Republic
Records
63
Source