Definition: Depletion of natural economic assets

Category: SNA 1993

The depletion of natural economic assets is the reduction in the value of deposits of subsoil assets as a result of their physical removal, the depletion of water resources, and the depletion of natural forests, fish stocks in the open seas and other non-cultivated biological resources as a result of harvesting, forest clearance, or other use. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/SNA_1993_EN.pdf