India | 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 India
Records
63
Source
India | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.23081779 1970
0.23774902 1971
0.2211884 1972
0.18921723 1973
0.23787984 1974
0.3310535 1975
0.47512382 1976
0.40615348 1977
0.26095432 1978
0.29101379 1979
0.29548165 1980
0.28987023 1981
0.34989212 1982
0.25363768 1983
0.25487095 1984
0.25138828 1985
0.24058129 1986
0.19165489 1987
0.2548325 1988
0.32168139 1989
0.30471079 1990
0.25314275 1991
0.32416578 1992
0.2791079 1993
0.21028845 1994
0.21917333 1995
0.2336773 1996
0.22319017 1997
0.36264779 1998
0.26688543 1999
0.26148499 2000
0.28116842 2001
0.27359972 2002
0.24079219 2003
0.30434355 2004
0.83998309 2005
1.01880931 2006
1.70049665 2007
2.27976069 2008
0.93637816 2009
1.51316087 2010
1.42378541 2011
0.76565152 2012
0.89395153 2013
0.53639496 2014
0.28590551 2015
0.35669746 2016
0.45779011 2017
0.43228488 2018
0.64945161 2019
0.68662332 2020
1.31522383 2021
2022
India | 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 India
Records
63
Source