Burundi | 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
Republic of Burundi
Records
63
Source
Burundi | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
6.75179244 1970
5.38352192 1971
6.30829521 1972
8.72371082 1973
8.45226242 1974
9.70803079 1975
7.98212116 1976
12.43084439 1977
11.56800891 1978
8.29405642 1979
8.89358459 1980
7.57597227 1981
10.81338427 1982
6.53842093 1983
6.76347528 1984
5.92949728 1985
8.5669114 1986
9.31221432 1987
10.37671615 1988
10.65041324 1989
13.36928096 1990
12.68584539 1991
14.02066839 1992
14.23864858 1993
17.06171534 1994
23.74932201 1995
28.01560288 1996
23.62156395 1997
27.01923838 1998
15.41724374 1999
15.06093519 2000
18.71641869 2001
24.14952021 2002
40.4082996 2003
30.35116123 2004
26.54978709 2005
23.62793442 2006
32.01122497 2007
32.6579274 2008
30.06556953 2009
23.66392052 2010
24.60457146 2011
17.11612587 2012
17.51576334 2013
17.19328267 2014
15.39156197 2015
18.93760985 2016
18.23743969 2017
13.43176299 2018
13.12743764 2019
13.84755216 2020
13.95703399 2021
2022
Burundi | 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
Republic of Burundi
Records
63
Source