Spain | 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
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source
Spain | Total natural resources rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.20085286 1970
0.16730778 1971
0.15702564 1972
0.25106968 1973
0.36622821 1974
0.28757327 1975
0.31158269 1976
0.26139705 1977
0.20427124 1978
0.23566507 1979
0.33531368 1980
0.40050107 1981
0.44403392 1982
0.43579649 1983
0.30935202 1984
0.30527719 1985
0.14032951 1986
0.12027485 1987
0.22981058 1988
0.23586345 1989
0.12223162 1990
0.07402346 1991
0.07109584 1992
0.06842696 1993
0.06930148 1994
0.06869673 1995
0.05972824 1996
0.05339801 1997
0.04258099 1998
0.03929087 1999
0.04992667 2000
0.05644059 2001
0.04593793 2002
0.03768004 2003
0.04689836 2004
0.03651299 2005
0.04376111 2006
0.05225452 2007
0.06517688 2008
0.03531083 2009
0.05834606 2010
0.06525621 2011
0.07306292 2012
0.06273487 2013
0.06064775 2014
0.04789226 2015
0.04193172 2016
0.05306561 2017
0.06300778 2018
0.03901011 2019
0.0381216 2020
0.11518102 2021
2022
Spain | 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
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source