Israel - Natural gas rents (% of GDP)

Natural gas rents (% of GDP) in Israel was 0.091 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 49 years was 0.236 in 2014, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 1999.

Definition: Natural gas rents are the difference between the value of natural gas production at world prices and total costs of production.

Source: Estimates based on sources and methods described in "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (World Bank, 2011).

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Year Value
1970 0.001
1971 0.001
1972 0.001
1973 0.000
1974 0.001
1975 0.003
1976 0.003
1977 0.004
1978 0.005
1979 0.009
1980 0.017
1981 0.008
1982 0.001
1983 0.004
1984 0.003
1985 0.003
1986 0.002
1987 0.001
1988 0.001
1989 0.001
1990 0.001
1991 0.000
1992 0.000
1993 0.000
1994 0.000
1995 0.000
1996 0.000
1997 0.000
1998 0.000
1999 0.000
2000 0.000
2001 0.000
2002 0.000
2003 0.000
2004 0.023
2005 0.047
2006 0.080
2007 0.094
2008 0.115
2009 0.087
2010 0.079
2011 0.153
2012 0.099
2013 0.230
2014 0.236
2015 0.165
2016 0.095
2017 0.106
2018 0.149
2019 0.091

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.

Limitations and Exceptions: This definition of economic rent differs from that used in the System of National Accounts, where rents are a form of property income, consisting of payments to landowners by a tenant for the use of the land or payments to the owners of subsoil assets by institutional units permitting them to extract subsoil deposits.

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 world price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs (including a normal return on capital). 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).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Natural resources contribution to GDP