Colombia | 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 Colombia
Records
63
Source
Colombia | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.49490787 1970
0.47367809 1971
0.57861354 1972
0.78193944 1973
0.57510319 1974
0.78654922 1975
0.61492402 1976
0.61182674 1977
0.57256215 1978
0.71099907 1979
0.56017828 1980
0.46135103 1981
0.59043606 1982
0.37848637 1983
0.24357471 1984
0.23524872 1985
0.309582 1986
0.34547032 1987
0.31744015 1988
0.35544496 1989
0.37728888 1990
0.37058012 1991
0.27415427 1992
0.22579187 1993
0.171493 1994
0.1943723 1995
0.15489096 1996
0.14957889 1997
0.16111857 1998
0.16402416 1999
0.14832681 2000
0.14557743 2001
0.13951628 2002
0.15568746 2003
0.10942447 2004
0.09659988 2005
0.10878178 2006
0.09305641 2007
0.09540292 2008
0.12955754 2009
0.17210329 2010
0.13434278 2011
0.12770099 2012
0.15072249 2013
0.16005235 2014
0.17871966 2015
0.18446832 2016
0.15140375 2017
0.1086752 2018
0.1010128 2019
0.13864481 2020
0.08799169 2021
2022
Colombia | 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 Colombia
Records
63
Source