China | 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
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source
China | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.84041694 1970
0.77389711 1971
0.89512328 1972
1.79558412 1973
5.00070904 1974
7.33042406 1975
9.22371412 1976
9.60235224 1977
11.21046873 1978
17.09992423 1979
19.74155792 1980
19.46744608 1981
16.75085233 1982
12.61621736 1983
10.39990475 1984
9.78977585 1985
5.75920687 1986
6.49280601 1987
6.28565316 1988
7.05998093 1989
8.63870038 1990
6.08171887 1991
5.33846887 1992
4.44907417 1993
3.28088502 1994
3.26699889 1995
3.00480164 1996
2.39155665 1997
1.71539063 1998
1.84532737 1999
2.69774019 2000
2.59237673 2001
1.95629637 2002
2.0179067 2003
4.72487592 2004
5.10277289 2005
5.52119781 2006
6.32787936 2007
9.64841354 2008
3.91782121 2009
6.28672642 2010
7.6852029 2011
4.08849319 2012
2.98307168 2013
2.3101348 2014
1.17476659 2015
1.05247408 2016
1.31423767 2017
1.42518421 2018
1.26691368 2019
0.86377474 2020
1.70756488 2021
2022
China | 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
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source