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