Finland | 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
Republic of Finland
Records
63
Source
Finland | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1.79143662 1970
1.40822783 1971
1.37951761 1972
1.79907749 1973
1.58802036 1974
0.97696826 1975
0.98524476 1976
0.9114453 1977
1.15937635 1978
1.33995968 1979
1.31648932 1980
1.05719352 1981
0.86351752 1982
0.81135614 1983
0.68213957 1984
0.76022934 1985
0.65128313 1986
0.56625856 1987
0.54998913 1988
0.62970668 1989
0.47562034 1990
0.34354526 1991
0.42850875 1992
0.54893708 1993
0.53585494 1994
0.47744201 1995
0.47377444 1996
0.47051085 1997
0.45018799 1998
0.39961868 1999
0.427731 2000
0.37056724 2001
0.42039271 2002
0.37395304 2003
0.3006453 2004
0.29800251 2005
0.37337849 2006
0.41469257 2007
0.38720937 2008
0.33318498 2009
0.50426619 2010
0.53264911 2011
0.57753578 2012
0.49856333 2013
0.48308706 2014
0.4458684 2015
0.41011866 2016
0.45377165 2017
0.56337299 2018
0.36520698 2019
0.28925424 2020
0.44831284 2021
2022
Finland | 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
Republic of Finland
Records
63
Source