Italy | 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
Italian Republic
Records
63
Source
Italy | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.08406888 1970
0.07567935 1971
0.08470737 1972
0.09565144 1973
0.16516821 1974
0.15946741 1975
0.17927781 1976
0.15212384 1977
0.13354776 1978
0.19727732 1979
0.22093293 1980
0.18463681 1981
0.10845826 1982
0.14585186 1983
0.14621085 1984
0.14387368 1985
0.08465004 1986
0.06915194 1987
0.07256406 1988
0.0857724 1989
0.07991528 1990
0.04356469 1991
0.03645742 1992
0.06041941 1993
0.05778518 1994
0.07933803 1995
0.08013525 1996
0.08131854 1997
0.02375337 1998
0.03828821 1999
0.09133162 2000
0.10272123 2001
0.08962987 2002
0.08261157 2003
0.07774354 2004
0.10163496 2005
0.12265393 2006
0.11680478 2007
0.15179498 2008
0.0907628 2009
0.10779345 2010
0.15600582 2011
0.16964584 2012
0.1554774 2013
0.13845159 2014
0.08190932 2015
0.04730518 2016
0.06399864 2017
0.09920132 2018
0.08249262 2019
0.05597055 2020
0.11200913 2021
2022
Italy | 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
Italian Republic
Records
63
Source