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