Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source
Argentina | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.08604819
1971 0.09685337
1972 0.10823584
1973 0.10152031
1974 0.0860779
1975 0.15620719
1976 0.1616835
1977 0.16645626
1978 0.17282315
1979 0.24636554
1980 0.19901888
1981 0.16345763
1982 0.20013383
1983 0.15205284
1984 0.13595594
1985 0.09805593
1986 0.09530676
1987 0.12454927
1988 0.11354334
1989 0.24736127
1990 0.14148575
1991 0.09935013
1992 0.09777717
1993 0.08941253
1994 0.06723381
1995 0.09685527
1996 0.08479127
1997 0.06651288
1998 0.05979614
1999 0.05071289
2000 0.04009156
2001 0.03915271
2002 0.19634832
2003 0.14336324
2004 0.10675087
2005 0.09893814
2006 0.10009259
2007 0.0952376
2008 0.08694113
2009 0.09906739
2010 0.11906717
2011 0.08500125
2012 0.09256807
2013 0.11373561
2014 0.09947327
2015 0.099378
2016 0.11526917
2017 0.12171964
2018 0.14193358
2019 0.16431236
2020 0.19674103
2021 0.13888508
2022
Argentina | 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
Argentine Republic
Records
63
Source