Spain | 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
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source
Spain | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.06429764 1970
0.04616274 1971
0.03813943 1972
0.12208477 1973
0.1415806 1974
0.02341155 1975
0.04154086 1976
0.02984361 1977
0.01462658 1978
0.04093686 1979
0.05880093 1980
0.02712996 1981
0.02137039 1982
0.02393478 1983
0.01915286 1984
0.0073098 1985
0.00557883 1986
0.0105148 1987
0.14077407 1988
0.13404502 1989
0.03482075 1990
0.01183602 1991
0.02091824 1992
0.01607491 1993
0.01608952 1994
0.01272729 1995
0.00704431 1996
0.00964884 1997
0.00346867 1998
0.0039402 1999
0.00693068 2000
0.00247726 2001
0.002153 2002
0.00127952 2003
0.00147376 2004
0.00243183 2005
0.0080915 2006
0.01365102 2007
0.00391675 2008
0.00064018 2009
0.01398816 2010
0.02145891 2011
0.03552286 2012
0.02334426 2013
0.02113912 2014
0.01423709 2015
0.01303668 2016
0.02622877 2017
0.02984084 2018
0.01641471 2019
0.01820821 2020
0.0964958 2021
2022
Spain | 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
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source