Austria | 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
Republic of Austria
Records
63
Source
Austria | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.40054634 1970
0.38771416 1971
0.38408916 1972
0.45357211 1973
0.71717465 1974
0.64604528 1975
0.66635615 1976
0.52735442 1977
0.49216362 1978
0.67544048 1979
0.66746396 1980
0.60476031 1981
0.46992166 1982
0.44953558 1983
0.43467044 1984
0.43610079 1985
0.24304026 1986
0.20520432 1987
0.21082041 1988
0.27146467 1989
0.25875069 1990
0.16391637 1991
0.12897583 1992
0.12835563 1993
0.12514219 1994
0.12234706 1995
0.14321645 1996
0.13308593 1997
0.09222158 1998
0.09938427 1999
0.15466649 2000
0.15953203 2001
0.15869032 2002
0.15182293 2003
0.13190126 2004
0.14644938 2005
0.18631136 2006
0.20843715 2007
0.25818187 2008
0.16759974 2009
0.21629138 2010
0.24469049 2011
0.23850822 2012
0.21867537 2013
0.19184654 2014
0.13471108 2015
0.11104244 2016
0.121957 2017
0.14075507 2018
0.11002291 2019
0.0708505 2020
0.11785577 2021
2022
Austria | 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
Republic of Austria
Records
63
Source