Mexico | 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
United Mexican States
Records
63
Source
Mexico | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.33780948
1971 0.22835544
1972 0.2539259
1973 0.54947045
1974 0.67505799
1975 0.22719572
1976 0.25908944
1977 0.23910642
1978 0.15221101
1979 0.44636837
1980 0.54040167
1981 0.21972208
1982 0.36088532
1983 0.59048898
1984 0.41914534
1985 0.32794062
1986 0.18310999
1987 0.32195434
1988 1.31036675
1989 1.043118
1990 0.62588292
1991 0.13871534
1992 0.10769362
1993 0.04549337
1994 0.0821976
1995 0.25943027
1996 0.1859483
1997 0.13630141
1998 0.11359494
1999 0.08398514
2000 0.06896595
2001 0.04505791
2002 0.04720797
2003 0.05357505
2004 0.13156217
2005 0.19487967
2006 0.34943468
2007 0.39635535
2008 0.33318753
2009 0.30737817
2010 0.50237906
2011 0.87206763
2012 0.79532227
2013 0.59037543
2014 0.41493124
2015 0.36391708
2016 0.4773744
2017 0.55563286
2018 0.42382277
2019 0.27403636
2020 0.46421955
2021 1.36465937
2022
Mexico | 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
United Mexican States
Records
63
Source