Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source
Japan | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.06379257 1970
0.03788772 1971
0.02484388 1972
0.0519495 1973
0.06133165 1974
0.01509051 1975
0.01422213 1976
0.00953914 1977
0.00572498 1978
0.01088962 1979
0.01570612 1980
0.00608666 1981
0.00412404 1982
0.00407981 1983
0.00270312 1984
0.00269019 1985
0.00214546 1986
0.00237612 1987
0.00668717 1988
0.00688353 1989
0.00293169 1990
0.00205915 1991
0.00206424 1992
0.00091498 1993
0.00113407 1994
0.00096411 1995
0.00074351 1996
0.00087557 1997
0.00060642 1998
0.00060188 1999
0.00053918 2000
0.00042779 2001
0.00061832 2002
0.00067913 2003
0.00089822 2004
0.00121465 2005
0.0018917 2006
0.00174846 2007
0.00142083 2008
0.00202663 2009
0.00280598 2010
0.00350691 2011
0.00265563 2012
0.00201428 2013
0.00169009 2014
0.00171885 2015
0.00146695 2016
0.0015486 2017
0.00182507 2018
0.06075575 2019
0.06769628 2020
0.00720554 2021
2022
Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source