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
1970 0.84041694
1971 0.77389711
1972 0.89512328
1973 1.79558412
1974 5.00070904
1975 7.33042406
1976 9.22371412
1977 9.60235224
1978 11.21046873
1979 17.09992423
1980 19.74155792
1981 19.46744608
1982 16.75085233
1983 12.61621736
1984 10.39990475
1985 9.78977585
1986 5.75920687
1987 6.49280601
1988 6.28565316
1989 7.05998093
1990 8.63870038
1991 6.08171887
1992 5.33846887
1993 4.44907417
1994 3.28088502
1995 3.26699889
1996 3.00480164
1997 2.39155665
1998 1.71539063
1999 1.84532737
2000 2.69774019
2001 2.59237673
2002 1.95629637
2003 2.0179067
2004 4.72487592
2005 5.10277289
2006 5.52119781
2007 6.32787936
2008 9.64841354
2009 3.91782121
2010 6.28672642
2011 7.6852029
2012 4.08849319
2013 2.98307168
2014 2.3101348
2015 1.17476659
2016 1.05247408
2017 1.31423767
2018 1.42518421
2019 1.26691368
2020 0.86377474
2021 1.70756488
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