Japan | Coal rents (% of GDP)
Coal rents are the difference between the value of both hard and soft coal production at world prices and their total costs of production. 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source
Japan | Coal rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.01977061 1970
0.01206361 1971
0.00715927 1972
0.00533881 1973
0.01733002 1974
0.05017273 1975
0.05670274 1976
0.04641774 1977
0.02755787 1978
0.02159681 1979
0.02360568 1980
0.03567651 1981
0.04234149 1982
0.02341972 1983
0.0156312 1984
0.01461981 1985
0.00512865 1986
0.00043619 1987
0.00112686 1988
0.0017044 1989
0.00145445 1990
0.00102975 1991
0.0004659 1992
2.764E-5 1993
2.365E-5 1994
0.00027888 1995
5.969E-5 1996
1.914E-5 1997
6.152E-5 1998
2.454E-5 1999
5.0E-5 2000
0.00040929 2001
4.671E-5 2002
4.255E-5 2003
0.00057087 2004
0.00037756 2005
0.00046552 2006
0.00074005 2007
0.0016899 2008
0.00047359 2009
0.0008208 2010
0.00112675 2011
0.00068164 2012
0.00067358 2013
0.00061134 2014
0.00035643 2015
0.00036261 2016
0.0005065 2017
0.00040631 2018
0.0002353 2019
0.00019516 2020
0.00035749 2021
2022
Japan | Coal rents (% of GDP)
Coal rents are the difference between the value of both hard and soft coal production at world prices and their total costs of production. 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source