Algeria | Forest rents (% of GDP)
Forest rents are roundwood harvest times the product of regional prices and a regional rental rate. 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
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Records
63
Source
Algeria | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.199224 1970
0.18970713 1971
0.15485892 1972
0.16545293 1973
0.12584574 1974
0.13584527 1975
0.0958305 1976
0.13294204 1977
0.13687155 1978
0.10588314 1979
0.09513852 1980
0.09178055 1981
0.20436254 1982
0.13080753 1983
0.12049158 1984
0.04493853 1985
0.10855493 1986
0.10680149 1987
0.12481183 1988
0.1356339 1989
0.12611687 1990
0.178403 1991
0.15032559 1992
0.11388242 1993
0.1406971 1994
0.21514815 1995
0.20154239 1996
0.19799698 1997
0.26998679 1998
0.14072787 1999
0.0999629 2000
0.11687409 2001
0.12361997 2002
0.14019854 2003
0.10861042 2004
0.0887542 2005
0.09642307 2006
0.07868842 2007
0.10983529 2008
0.13451036 2009
0.13719268 2010
0.12701593 2011
0.14015445 2012
0.11685944 2013
0.1841246 2014
0.21690879 2015
0.17522938 2016
0.20696723 2017
0.10409435 2018
0.14224658 2019
0.1554571 2020
0.1291895 2021
2022
Algeria | Forest rents (% of GDP)
Forest rents are roundwood harvest times the product of regional prices and a regional rental rate. 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
People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Records
63
Source