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