Viet Nam | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)

Natural gas rents are the difference between the value of natural gas 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
Viet Nam
Records
63
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Viet Nam | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)
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1985 0.00471274
1986 0.00407404
1987 0.00256583
1988 0.00234468
1989 0.01244812
1990 0.01969709
1991 0.01997885
1992 0.06126904
1993 0.06448565
1994 0.05916539
1995 0.02811144
1996 0.05448047
1997 0.09575082
1998 0.11570833
1999 0.17479129
2000 0.30818675
2001 0.33465516
2002 0.32538415
2003 0.35961772
2004 0.63287182
2005 0.77755323
2006 0.6518038
2007 0.54252264
2008 0.49559105
2009 0.4768434
2010 0.4421097
2011 0.37781646
2012 0.35292979
2013 0.32955629
2014 0.41856233
2015 0.46699374
2016 0.31602121
2017 0.27961134
2018 0.38336913
2019 0.35996994
2020 0.2479614
2021 0.32730836
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Viet Nam | Natural gas rents (% of GDP)

Natural gas rents are the difference between the value of natural gas 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
Viet Nam
Records
63
Source