Hong Kong SAR, China | 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
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source
Hong Kong SAR, China | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.0095056
1971 0.00713685
1972 0.00528392
1973 0.0067226
1974 0.00647825
1975 0.0086015
1976 0.00690349
1977 0.00740476
1978 0.00490066
1979 0.00551476
1980 0.00488939
1981 0.00289968
1982 0.00275054
1983 0.00281377
1984 0.00159535
1985 0.00152572
1986 0.00207469
1987 0.00163995
1988 0.00137379
1989 0.00119952
1990 0.00107916
1991 0.00105037
1992 0.00126284
1993 0.00084238
1994 0.00087026
1995 0.00136553
1996 0.00147708
1997 0.0011643
1998 0.00097211
1999 0.00052948
2000 0.000501
2001 0.00058345
2002 0.00065769
2003 0.00097424
2004 0.00102022
2005 0.00061991
2006 0.00066568
2007 0.00090272
2008 0.00145921
2009 0.00139046
2010 0.0020777
2011 0.00836943
2012 0.00233968
2013 0.00380878
2014 0.0173547
2015 0.00132324
2016 0.00136992
2017 0.00161904
2018 0.00106134
2019 0.00088573
2020 0.0008878
2021 0.00099261
2022
Hong Kong SAR, China | 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
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source