Indonesia | 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 Indonesia
Records
63
Source
Indonesia | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.27448183 1970
0.32764619 1971
0.31514774 1972
0.59570842 1973
0.79365268 1974
0.38178267 1975
0.37379061 1976
0.42748971 1977
0.42381423 1978
0.66685289 1979
0.54986821 1980
0.34016216 1981
0.22625165 1982
0.2638779 1983
0.26162133 1984
0.25417133 1985
0.18770848 1986
0.29089192 1987
1.02462358 1988
1.03744644 1989
0.71264246 1990
0.31932723 1991
0.22800844 1992
0.13917162 1993
0.20011911 1994
0.70827856 1995
0.63098242 1996
0.55417168 1997
1.3563432 1998
0.97724611 1999
0.99034994 2000
0.96840976 2001
0.85660374 2002
0.91875526 2003
1.01171112 2004
1.58686661 2005
1.77357767 2006
2.65498358 2007
1.0246884 2008
1.41195378 2009
1.51452959 2010
1.37848885 2011
0.57708888 2012
0.72002109 2013
0.29103167 2014
0.23191256 2015
0.32559844 2016
0.33869626 2017
0.66493103 2018
0.52763358 2019
0.47218732 2020
1.90957956 2021
2022
Indonesia | 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 Indonesia
Records
63
Source