Bahrain | 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
Kingdom of Bahrain
Records
63
Source
Bahrain | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980 0.00067219
1981 0.00064473
1982 0.00156058
1983 0.0010497
1984 0.00104413
1985 0.00041728
1986 0.00150625
1987 0.00143428
1988 0.00133664
1989 0.00134421
1990 0.00128417
1991 0.00121099
1992 0.00101753
1993 0.00068017
1994 0.00050476
1995 0.00073649
1996 0.0010286
1997 0.00101194
1998 0.00149907
1999 0.00061017
2000 0.00044286
2001 0.00050508
2002 0.00053258
2003 0.00066535
2004 0.0005515
2005 0.00045442
2006 0.00048378
2007 0.00038387
2008 0.00057462
2009 0.0006328
2010 0.00068161
2011 0.00070683
2012 0.00076725
2013 0.00060764
2014 0.00095908
2015 0.0009456
2016 0.00071386
2017 0.0008096
2018 0.00039024
2019 0.00051889
2020 0.00053326
2021 0.00044757
2022

Bahrain | 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
Kingdom of Bahrain
Records
63
Source