Denmark | 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
Kingdom of Denmark
Records
63
Source
Denmark | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.06812369
1971 0.05582209
1972 0.05807023
1973 0.06444673
1974 0.05750323
1975 0.06270252
1976 0.06963359
1977 0.08906603
1978 0.07808028
1979 0.11954558
1980 0.12111348
1981 0.19836793
1982 0.29514509
1983 0.41205441
1984 0.45597117
1985 0.57478572
1986 0.25780531
1987 0.33320883
1988 0.25801402
1989 0.48186811
1990 0.55047687
1991 0.32533949
1992 0.33197895
1993 0.38935355
1994 0.35497684
1995 0.37090324
1996 0.53701982
1997 0.5440096
1998 0.1550326
1999 0.54873654
2000 1.51892677
2001 1.23299491
2002 1.17562785
2003 1.10244847
2004 1.30912671
2005 1.72068305
2006 1.82155048
2007 1.60947261
2008 2.10773305
2009 1.18379214
2010 1.21806959
2011 1.63537892
2012 1.52209846
2013 1.17608346
2014 0.98320924
2015 0.52148457
2016 0.34247797
2017 0.47020071
2018 0.58786261
2019 0.44622476
2020 0.16233273
2021 0.33866439
2022

Denmark | 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
Kingdom of Denmark
Records
63
Source