Argentina | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
Mineral rents are the difference between the value of production for a stock of minerals at world prices and their total costs of production. Minerals included in the calculation are tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate. 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source
Argentina | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.02566834 1970
0.01717477 1971
0.02593181 1972
0.05581101 1973
0.06676958 1974
0.02999889 1975
0.03895149 1976
0.04310083 1977
0.03116575 1978
0.05922607 1979
0.06591791 1980
0.03022265 1981
0.01898699 1982
0.02217805 1983
0.02805647 1984
0.02259244 1985
0.01104674 1986
0.01213929 1987
0.18762577 1988
0.29651096 1989
0.06010986 1990
0.01286752 1991
0.00825985 1992
0.00284338 1993
0.00487394 1994
0.00619888 1995
0.00551746 1996
0.00453798 1997
0.01425633 1998
0.02225198 1999
0.00202037 2000
0.00111912 2001
0.19971593 2002
0.18978436 2003
0.22651448 2004
0.20863646 2005
0.55079986 2006
0.43115249 2007
0.30845184 2008
0.29900284 2009
0.5227573 2010
0.51642778 2011
0.43194166 2012
0.23044618 2013
0.23787185 2014
0.07657801 2015
0.14554193 2016
0.10300887 2017
0.18256716 2018
0.18729707 2019
0.25746178 2020
0.58026665 2021
2022
Argentina | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
Mineral rents are the difference between the value of production for a stock of minerals at world prices and their total costs of production. Minerals included in the calculation are tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate. 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source