Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source
Burkina Faso | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
6.82211868 1970
5.71704905 1971
5.48004506 1972
7.99992628 1973
7.99075804 1974
8.75281727 1975
7.53390289 1976
11.86027329 1977
9.35616803 1978
7.40151103 1979
8.32728354 1980
8.02474858 1981
11.28259561 1982
8.21124482 1983
8.37615184 1984
5.77461653 1985
7.0449873 1986
5.97520634 1987
5.97281872 1988
6.16983283 1989
6.54284317 1990
6.48290652 1991
6.30550628 1992
5.6030711 1993
11.4691312 1994
13.76373385 1995
12.70197391 1996
12.66120567 1997
11.61581454 1998
4.60031124 1999
5.29645467 2000
4.75459313 2001
5.70021286 2002
6.31252599 2003
5.41123141 2004
6.3291839 2005
6.30230659 2006
7.81229482 2007
8.12541241 2008
8.12049824 2009
6.86206836 2010
6.57470018 2011
7.29929417 2012
7.13344466 2013
7.52958346 2014
9.19665569 2015
8.96104597 2016
8.12959848 2017
5.22371449 2018
4.88973858 2019
4.82055691 2020
4.68280095 2021
2022
Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source