The phrase "a geographic share" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the distribution or allocation of resources, populations, or data across different geographical areas.
Example: "The study aimed to analyze a geographic share of the population that has access to clean water."
Alternatives: "a regional portion" or "a spatial allocation".
Allocating to Scotland a geographic share of North Sea oil and gas output increases measures of economic output.
Including a geographic share of oil revenues, tax revenues rose to £54bn – £400 above the UK average of £10,100 a person.
Including a geographic share of oil revenues, tax revenues rose to £54bn: £400 above the UK per capita average at £10,100 per person.
This position improves considerably once a geographic share of North Sea revenues is added in.
According to Scottish government figures, Scotland has contributed more to the Treasury per head than the UK average, if you assume a geographic share of North Sea revenues.
The figures for 2012/13 assume that 84.2% of taxes from UK oil and gas accrued to Scotland, a geographic share calculated by experts from the University of Aberdeen based on the existing North Sea fisheries boundary.
Take a full geographic share of North Sea oil and gas reserves, with more than 90% of the UK reserves in Scottish waters.
The Scottish government published a new report on North Sea oil and independence on Tuesday arguing that, with a full geographic share of reserves, Scotland would gain the lion's share of up to £1.5 trillion of untapped oil and gas over the next 40 years.
The SNP said on Wednesday that £1.5tn figure was based on a calculation by the oil economist Professor Alex Kemp at Aberdeen university that Scotland has a 91% geographic share of remaining British oil and gas reserves.
Icas calculated that, based on an independent Scotland receiving the geographic share (the vast majority) of North Sea tax revenues, it would have had a public spending deficit £239 lower than the whole of the UK in 2011-12 – buthatathisis would have reversed to one £470 higher in 2012-13.
"Scotland is a net contributor to the UK public finances, in part due to our geographic share of oil and gas revenues, and this ensures that our finances are typically healthier than the UK public finances as whole.
