Finland | 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 Finland
Records
63
Source
Finland | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.32580237 1970
0.18212324 1971
0.1782152 1972
0.37914042 1973
0.38070763 1974
0.10419746 1975
0.13520305 1976
0.10584053 1977
0.06596758 1978
0.11283052 1979
0.13636065 1980
0.07620877 1981
0.05531782 1982
0.06623223 1983
0.03510663 1984
0.0361427 1985
0.01721812 1986
0.01818341 1987
0.04462845 1988
0.09907898 1989
0.03660106 1990
0.0452918 1991
0.04185573 1992
0.02660397 1993
0.01942846 1994
0.01679043 1995
0.01405764 1996
0.02928866 1997
0.01439444 1998
0.02296699 1999
0.02294239 2000
0.00155902 2001
0.01123878 2002
0.01580811 2003
0.03440085 2004
0.04624014 2005
0.10554689 2006
0.10347399 2007
0.09730005 2008
0.08063589 2009
0.14674087 2010
0.19180029 2011
0.23932516 2012
0.12928042 2013
0.09657105 2014
0.06695634 2015
0.05839821 2016
0.11992423 2017
0.11086611 2018
0.0169942 2019
0.01430241 2020
0.10907889 2021
2022
Finland | 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 Finland
Records
63
Source