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
6.38800581 1970
4.97557072 1971
4.87646389 1972
6.78043653 1973
21.36535391 1974
15.48888745 1975
11.06598308 1976
23.10635976 1977
9.99923875 1978
9.29110311 1979
9.92010964 1980
11.01593336 1981
14.87228041 1982
11.08883747 1983
9.56439314 1984
7.87100479 1985
7.1532188 1986
5.59683136 1987
5.59521461 1988
5.85673981 1989
6.11169329 1990
6.29687125 1991
6.23238966 1992
7.36144125 1993
11.10599912 1994
12.62685673 1995
11.25173023 1996
10.67538865 1997
10.38014581 1998
6.80166561 1999
7.14401583 2000
6.64861942 2001
6.84815672 2002
9.30157253 2003
6.31025985 2004
6.87103076 2005
8.39328796 2006
10.54848439 2007
15.15456273 2008
14.67529636 2009
11.30762843 2010
17.92481057 2011
20.99368899 2012
15.56532009 2013
13.3950716 2014
12.72800872 2015
9.00310957 2016
7.77733836 2017
4.8736233 2018
4.32587636 2019
4.73168572 2020
7.8641742 2021
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