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