Economic indicators
GRI Indicator 1 / Description of indicator	Links to information
EC1 Net sales	Annual report (page 82, profit and loss account)
EC2 Geographic breakdown of markets. For each product or product range, disclose national market share by country where this is 25% or more. Disclose market share and sales for each country where national sales represent 5% or more of GDP.	Annual report (page 11, business environment and markets; page 110, turnover by destination)
EC3 Cost of all goods, materials, and services purchased	Annual report (page 82, profit and loss account; page 90, net operating costs) Payments to suppliers
EC4 Percentage of contracts that were paid in accordance with agreed terms, excluding agreed penalty arrangements	These data are not currently collected at a Group level due to the significant number of contracts in place.
EC5 Total payroll and benefits broken down by country or region	Annual report (page 90, employee costs; page 132, financial information by business unit)
EC6 Distributions to providers of capital broken down by interest on debt and borrowings, and dividends on all classes or shares, with any arrears of preferred dividends to be disclosed	Annual report (page 97, net debt of joint ventures and associates; page 102, net debt)
EC7 Increase/decrease in retained earnings at end of period	Annual report (page 84, balance sheet; page 86, statement of total recognised gains and losses)
EC8 Total sum of all taxes paid broken down by country	Taxes and royalties by geographic level Annual report (page 92, taxation charge for the year) Rio Tinto also supports the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative on revenue transparency reporting
EC9 Subsidies received broken down by country or region	Data not collected.
EC10 Donations to community, civil society, and other groups broken down in terms of cash and in-kind donations per type of group	Contributions to communities Input/Output
EC12 Total spent on non-core business infrastructure development	Contributions by subject area
EC13 Indirect economic impacts	Industry research suggests that a job created in mining typically leads to the creation of 1 to 1.5 jobs in other sectors of the host economy, as a result of the spending of the company and its employees. However, the scale of such 'multiplier effects' varies significantly with individual operations and the characteristics of the economies in which they are located. Rio Tinto has conducted detailed study on the regional economic impacts of several of its operations with a view to being better able to measure and optimise these impacts.
1 Where GRI Indicators are in italics, the indicator is Additional, and does not form part of the Core GRI set of Indicators.