Chad | 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 Chad
Records
63
Source
Chad | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
3.97796115 1970
3.41327688 1971
3.47021053 1972
5.08371242 1973
5.81663743 1974
5.68186561 1975
5.35463116 1976
8.09744941 1977
7.21980943 1978
8.47665819 1979
10.07839197 1980
10.3706785 1981
14.62711232 1982
10.03418943 1983
8.31292208 1984
5.7303663 1985
8.60106539 1986
7.90416622 1987
6.58618032 1988
7.07578489 1989
7.51734819 1990
6.91105203 1991
7.23066187 1992
8.50696656 1993
12.19880964 1994
14.21634866 1995
12.72771738 1996
12.45518145 1997
11.6316656 1998
9.50402149 1999
10.57349771 2000
8.36504777 2001
8.65186088 2002
9.59550342 2003
5.06646345 2004
3.64957178 2005
3.3976597 2006
4.09231969 2007
4.24744741 2008
4.71043341 2009
3.73802901 2010
3.75353152 2011
4.26216055 2012
4.26303361 2013
4.31922202 2014
5.67318871 2015
6.51175754 2016
6.60960422 2017
4.32777401 2018
4.07919932 2019
4.70124014 2020
4.57787415 2021
2022
Chad | 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 Chad
Records
63
Source