Korea, Rep. | 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
Republic of Korea
Records
63
Source
Korea, Rep. | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.16889415
1971 0.16018047
1972 0.15426593
1973 0.4012638
1974 0.49128516
1975 0.78614293
1976 0.57196869
1977 0.48434915
1978 0.31056799
1979 0.2670176
1980 0.44955532
1981 0.62496561
1982 0.62999362
1983 0.31185251
1984 0.20700043
1985 0.25279285
1986 0.1452825
1987 0.06728225
1988 0.11800985
1989 0.11010593
1990 0.07024112
1991 0.03844832
1992 0.02732344
1993 0.01768952
1994 0.01824154
1995 0.02879985
1996 0.02290537
1997 0.02518786
1998 0.04080515
1999 0.02894879
2000 0.03672509
2001 0.04029063
2002 0.03190986
2003 0.0345912
2004 0.0311351
2005 0.03514939
2006 0.03753602
2007 0.04364591
2008 0.07534023
2009 0.0579313
2010 0.07464003
2011 0.0914176
2012 0.1008181
2013 0.07237172
2014 0.06407358
2015 0.03674801
2016 0.03311019
2017 0.03860227
2018 0.04712152
2019 0.12145301
2020 0.11327092
2021 0.04981257
2022

Korea, Rep. | 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
Republic of Korea
Records
63
Source