Mongolia | 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
Mongolia
Records
63
Source
Mongolia | Mineral rents (% of GDP)
1960
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1962
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1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981 2.12189932
1982 1.68509436
1983 2.09545028
1984 2.4536
1985 2.79372779
1986 1.07794267
1987 2.23325322
1988 5.28245901
1989 5.37016513
1990 6.51055847
1991 2.86300906
1992 4.49679045
1993 5.27722764
1994 9.55805482
1995 10.17301393
1996 4.45960546
1997 6.12310889
1998 1.57978543
1999 1.6366032
2000 3.03510382
2001 2.0519803
2002 2.19867575
2003 2.46912927
2004 9.39485279
2005 11.35985761
2006 23.14501838
2007 21.29632192
2008 15.53312844
2009 10.87093376
2010 14.37671797
2011 14.05468634
2012 9.88964892
2013 9.84721759
2014 7.17526011
2015 5.55352989
2016 3.98730978
2017 7.2711989
2018 9.61105231
2019 6.5872647
2020 8.25665752
2021 26.5731454
2022
Mongolia | 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
Mongolia
Records
63
Source