Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source
Japan | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.22801505 1970
0.20039278 1971
0.15984434 1972
0.21932208 1973
0.28059374 1974
0.26423151 1975
0.26634238 1976
0.20797623 1977
0.15505618 1978
0.24076657 1979
0.16089795 1980
0.12010727 1981
0.14777387 1982
0.10549077 1983
0.07672894 1984
0.08630524 1985
0.05031889 1986
0.03701951 1987
0.03544107 1988
0.0399027 1989
0.03686966 1990
0.02894436 1991
0.02491846 1992
0.02265936 1993
0.01828204 1994
0.01699159 1995
0.019113 1996
0.01767076 1997
0.01499107 1998
0.01248866 1999
0.01397865 2000
0.01299227 2001
0.01322766 2002
0.01425736 2003
0.01343823 2004
0.01694601 2005
0.01930752 2006
0.0226743 2007
0.02397248 2008
0.01944897 2009
0.02009688 2010
0.02167697 2011
0.02009017 2012
0.02321269 2013
0.02807088 2014
0.02896871 2015
0.02517687 2016
0.03844587 2017
0.0367554 2018
0.09322866 2019
0.0969972 2020
0.04730446 2021
2022
Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source