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