Cuba | 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
Republic of Cuba
Records
63
Source
Cuba | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.75370186 1970
0.60870723 1971
0.52923221 1972
0.42151433 1973
0.35859284 1974
0.44957232 1975
0.52071236 1976
0.47281638 1977
0.15141023 1978
0.28927779 1979
0.35744284 1980
0.24885163 1981
0.04532344 1982
0.038872 1983
0.05591695 1984
0.09200654 1985
0.00376074 1986
0.00780331 1987
1.28089239 1988
1.3023807 1989
0.41376059 1990
0.56899722 1991
0.46725202 1992
0.19752107 1993
0.20151931 1994
0.52206094 1995
0.54055046 1996
0.27363276 1997
0.06906466 1998
0.15018289 1999
0.75844887 2000
0.28697671 2001
0.39837641 2002
0.80161476 2003
1.4125636 2004
1.14142468 2005
2.08765492 2006
4.97314578 2007
0.98972193 2008
0.59298404 2009
1.17029728 2010
0.88414781 2011
0.32631837 2012
0.05360415 2013
0.19585903 2014
0.1092337 2015
0.02387496 2016
0.09063029 2017
0.24351431 2018
0.26101713 2019
0.24431681 2020
2021
2022
Cuba | 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
Republic of Cuba
Records
63
Source