Cote d'Ivoire | 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
Cote d'Ivoire
Records
63
Source
Cote d'Ivoire | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
5.88211961 1970
5.64893582 1971
6.24912984 1972
7.46318789 1973
6.97736373 1974
5.73987904 1975
5.8418772 1976
5.292521 1977
4.33407993 1978
4.78950155 1979
4.81186623 1980
4.14147748 1981
5.17023104 1982
4.65082549 1983
4.02828188 1984
3.24820989 1985
3.23672078 1986
2.75717142 1987
2.52900617 1988
2.8329587 1989
3.97715725 1990
3.43635962 1991
3.21887287 1992
3.12604383 1993
4.97078951 1994
4.79845231 1995
2.6707598 1996
2.40731989 1997
2.31118315 1998
1.95882111 1999
2.337616 2000
1.86945334 2001
1.81782277 2002
1.92749979 2003
1.45103886 2004
1.45857096 2005
1.47922268 2006
1.77953766 2007
1.90768603 2008
1.83447616 2009
1.97683794 2010
2.12923468 2011
2.42796237 2012
2.14475508 2013
2.05647362 2014
2.08311829 2015
2.10759702 2016
1.98953608 2017
1.47066904 2018
1.30790325 2019
1.31857899 2020
1.22441901 2021
2022
Cote d'Ivoire | 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
Cote d'Ivoire
Records
63
Source