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World Vitals / Extraction, reserves, and depletion

Natural Resources

Track reserves, extraction, trade, and depletion across natural resources.

What this page shows

Natural-resource pages should make the difference between reserve, resource, production, consumption, and trade explicit.

The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.

Database charts

Natural Resources over time and in context

These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.

World Bank

Natural resource rents show extraction dependence

Rents as a share of GDP reveal how much economic output is tied to resource extraction.

3.072021

Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.

0.53.76.819702021
20213.074 percent of GDPWorld Bank

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Mineral rents are a first critical-minerals proxy

Mineral rents do not identify individual commodities, but they do expose mining dependence.

0.772021

Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.

00.40.919702021
20210.77 percent of GDPWorld Bank

World Bank

Forest rents link resource use and land systems

Forest rents add an economic layer to forest-area and habitat indicators.

0.152021

Hover or focus a point for exact date, value, unit, and source.

0.10.30.419702021
20210.149 percent of GDPWorld Bank

World Bank WDI

Aquaculture rose while capture fisheries flattened

The paired path shows the structural shift inside global seafood supply.

Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.

068M137M26M102MCapture fisheries production, metric tonsAquaculture production, metric tons19602022
2022Capture fisheries production, metric tons: 87.99MAquaculture production, metric tons: 126.94M

Metric snapshots

Natural Resources latest values

Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.

Energylatest annual

Electricity demand growth

2.2%
percent annual growth2023latest annual

IEA reported global electricity demand growth for 2023, with higher growth forecast through 2026.

International Energy Agency / 2023
Environmentlatest annual

Total CO2 emissions

42.20B
tonnes CO22025 projectionlatest annual

Projected total global CO2 emissions including fossil fuels and land-use change.

Global Carbon Project / 2025 projection
Energylatest annual

Access to electricity

91.6%
percent of population2023latest annual

World Bank estimate of the share of the global population with access to electricity.

World Bank / 2023
Economyestimated live

Economic output this year

$39.41T
current US dollars2024estimated live

Live-rate estimate from latest annual world GDP. It is an economic tempo indicator, not real-time accounting.

World Bank / 2024
Environmentestimated live

Fossil CO2 this year

13.53B
tonnes CO22025 projectionestimated live

Run-rate estimate from Global Carbon Project fossil CO2 projection.

Global Carbon Project / 2025 projection
Economylatest annual

World GDP

$110.98T
current US dollars2024latest annual

Latest World Bank world GDP value in current US dollars.

World Bank / 2024

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