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
0.16889415 1970
0.16018047 1971
0.15426593 1972
0.4012638 1973
0.49128516 1974
0.78614293 1975
0.57196869 1976
0.48434915 1977
0.31056799 1978
0.2670176 1979
0.44955532 1980
0.62496561 1981
0.62999362 1982
0.31185251 1983
0.20700043 1984
0.25279285 1985
0.1452825 1986
0.06728225 1987
0.11800985 1988
0.11010593 1989
0.07024112 1990
0.03844832 1991
0.02732344 1992
0.01768952 1993
0.01824154 1994
0.02879985 1995
0.02290537 1996
0.02518786 1997
0.04080515 1998
0.02894879 1999
0.03672509 2000
0.04029063 2001
0.03190986 2002
0.0345912 2003
0.0311351 2004
0.03514939 2005
0.03753602 2006
0.04364591 2007
0.07534023 2008
0.0579313 2009
0.07464003 2010
0.0914176 2011
0.1008181 2012
0.07237172 2013
0.06407358 2014
0.03674801 2015
0.03311019 2016
0.03860227 2017
0.04712152 2018
0.12145301 2019
0.11327092 2020
0.04981257 2021
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