Coal rents (% of GDP) - Country Ranking

Definition: Coal rents are the difference between the value of both hard and soft coal production at world prices and their total costs of production.

Source: Estimates based on sources and methods described in "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (World Bank, 2011).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Mongolia 6.91 2019
2 Mozambique 3.41 2019
3 South Africa 1.86 2019
4 India 0.82 2019
5 Kazakhstan 0.79 2019
6 Indonesia 0.74 2019
7 Australia 0.66 2019
8 Colombia 0.54 2019
9 China 0.43 2019
10 Russia 0.40 2019
11 Afghanistan 0.37 2019
12 Tajikistan 0.37 2019
13 Zimbabwe 0.36 2019
14 Botswana 0.33 2019
15 Ukraine 0.27 2019
16 Vietnam 0.25 2019
17 Lao PDR 0.23 2012
18 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.23 2019
19 Poland 0.20 2019
20 Serbia 0.16 2019
21 Kyrgyz Republic 0.14 2019
22 United States 0.14 2019
23 Eswatini 0.11 2019
24 Czech Republic 0.10 2019
25 Bulgaria 0.09 2019
26 Montenegro 0.08 2019
27 Canada 0.06 2019
28 Pakistan 0.05 2019
29 Philippines 0.05 2019
30 Zambia 0.04 2019
31 Uzbekistan 0.03 2019
32 Turkey 0.03 2019
33 New Zealand 0.03 2019
34 Greece 0.03 2019
35 Albania 0.02 2019
36 Niger 0.02 2019
37 Slovenia 0.02 2019
38 Romania 0.02 2019
39 Mexico 0.02 2019
40 Thailand 0.02 2019
41 Malawi 0.02 2019
42 Germany 0.01 2019
43 Malaysia 0.01 2019
44 Bangladesh 0.01 2019
45 Tanzania 0.01 2019
46 Chile 0.01 2019
47 Hungary 0.01 2019
48 Myanmar 0.01 2019
49 Venezuela 0.01 2014
50 Iran 0.01 2018
51 Brazil 0.01 2019
52 Slovak Republic 0.00 2019
53 Georgia 0.00 2019
54 Nepal 0.00 2019
55 Peru 0.00 2019
56 United Kingdom 0.00 2019
57 Spain 0.00 2019
58 Korea 0.00 2019
59 Norway 0.00 2019
60 Japan 0.00 2019
61 Nigeria 0.00 2019
62 Argentina 0.00 2019
63 Armenia 0.00 2019
63 Azerbaijan 0.00 2019
63 Belgium 0.00 2019
63 Benin 0.00 2019
63 United Arab Emirates 0.00 2019
63 Brunei 0.00 2019
63 Belarus 0.00 2019
63 Belize 0.00 2019
63 Switzerland 0.00 2019
63 Dem. Rep. Congo 0.00 2019
63 Guinea 0.00 2019
63 The Gambia 0.00 2019
63 Guinea-Bissau 0.00 2019
63 Equatorial Guinea 0.00 2019
63 Comoros 0.00 2019
63 Costa Rica 0.00 2019
63 Cyprus 0.00 2019
63 Denmark 0.00 2019
63 Algeria 0.00 2019
63 Ecuador 0.00 2019
63 Egypt 0.00 2019
63 Eritrea 0.00 2011
63 Estonia 0.00 2019
63 Ethiopia 0.00 2019
63 Finland 0.00 2019
63 Gabon 0.00 2019
63 Kuwait 0.00 2019
63 Libya 0.00 2019
63 Sri Lanka 0.00 2019
63 Macao SAR, China 0.00 2019
63 Iraq 0.00 2019
63 Jamaica 0.00 2019
63 Kenya 0.00 2019
63 Grenada 0.00 2019
63 Greenland 0.00 2018
63 Guatemala 0.00 2019
63 Guyana 0.00 2019
63 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.00 2019
63 Croatia 0.00 2019
63 Haiti 0.00 2019
63 Mali 0.00 2019
63 Malta 0.00 2019
63 Angola 0.00 2019
63 Antigua and Barbuda 0.00 2019
63 Kiribati 0.00 2019
63 Austria 0.00 2019
63 Burundi 0.00 2019
63 Burkina Faso 0.00 2019
63 Bahrain 0.00 2019
63 The Bahamas 0.00 2019
63 Bolivia 0.00 2019
63 Barbados 0.00 2019
63 Bhutan 0.00 2019
63 Cambodia 0.00 2019
63 St. Kitts and Nevis 0.00 2019
63 Iceland 0.00 2019
63 Israel 0.00 2019
63 Italy 0.00 2019
63 Jordan 0.00 2019
63 Lebanon 0.00 2019
63 Liberia 0.00 2019
63 St. Lucia 0.00 2019
63 Lesotho 0.00 2019
63 Lithuania 0.00 2019
63 Luxembourg 0.00 2019
63 Latvia 0.00 2019
63 Morocco 0.00 2019
63 Moldova 0.00 2019
63 Madagascar 0.00 2019
63 North Macedonia 0.00 2019
63 Fiji 0.00 2019
63 France 0.00 2019
63 Central African Republic 0.00 2019
63 Ghana 0.00 2019
63 Honduras 0.00 2019
63 Ireland 0.00 2019
63 Côte d'Ivoire 0.00 2019
63 Cameroon 0.00 2019
63 Congo 0.00 2019
63 Cabo Verde 0.00 2019
63 Cuba 0.00 2018
63 Cayman Islands 0.00 2018
63 Djibouti 0.00 2019
63 Dominica 0.00 2019
63 Dominican Republic 0.00 2019
63 Nauru 0.00 2012
63 Oman 0.00 2019
63 Seychelles 0.00 2019
63 Syrian Arab Republic 0.00 2007
63 Chad 0.00 2019
63 Togo 0.00 2019
63 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0.00 2019
63 Uruguay 0.00 2019
63 Timor-Leste 0.00 2019
63 Trinidad and Tobago 0.00 2019
63 Tunisia 0.00 2019
63 Uganda 0.00 2019
63 Mauritius 0.00 2019
63 Namibia 0.00 2019
63 Nicaragua 0.00 2019
63 Netherlands 0.00 2019
63 Portugal 0.00 2019
63 Qatar 0.00 2019
63 Rwanda 0.00 2019
63 Singapore 0.00 2019
63 Solomon Islands 0.00 2019
63 Sierra Leone 0.00 2019
63 Somalia 0.00 1990
63 São Tomé and Principe 0.00 2019
63 Panama 0.00 2019
63 Papua New Guinea 0.00 2019
63 Puerto Rico 0.00 2019
63 Paraguay 0.00 2019
63 New Caledonia 0.00 2000
63 Mauritania 0.00 2019
63 Vanuatu 0.00 2019
63 Samoa 0.00 2019
63 Yemen 0.00 2019
63 Turkmenistan 0.00 2018
63 Tonga 0.00 2019
63 Suriname 0.00 2019
63 Sweden 0.00 2019
63 Saudi Arabia 0.00 2019
63 Sudan 0.00 2019
63 Senegal 0.00 2019
63 El Salvador 0.00 2019

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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.

Limitations and Exceptions: This definition of economic rent differs from that used in the System of National Accounts, where rents are a form of property income, consisting of payments to landowners by a tenant for the use of the land or payments to the owners of subsoil assets by institutional units permitting them to extract subsoil deposits.

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 world price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs (including a normal return on capital). 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).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual