Cuba | 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 Cuba
Records
63
Source
Cuba | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.11294009
1971 0.0996595
1972 0.09695996
1973 0.13247142
1974 0.11561715
1975 0.14369472
1976 0.1265884
1977 0.15321881
1978 0.14736103
1979 0.21758256
1980 0.22764222
1981 0.20666868
1982 0.34195666
1983 0.15525554
1984 0.09271939
1985 0.07686629
1986 0.09879604
1987 0.10320064
1988 0.08958864
1989 0.1034262
1990 0.15567502
1991 0.20266538
1992 0.2311569
1993 0.21441252
1994 0.17210713
1995 0.21064243
1996 0.21034759
1997 0.22861322
1998 0.19580198
1999 0.07730762
2000 0.07776629
2001 0.07404508
2002 0.11190148
2003 0.10437838
2004 0.08682738
2005 0.08503727
2006 0.10282253
2007 0.09509227
2008 0.08731384
2009 0.09325246
2010 0.12233321
2011 0.0981435
2012 0.08927896
2013 0.10267361
2014 0.10646723
2015 0.09136342
2016 0.09903957
2017 0.09211515
2018 0.07742628
2019 0.06631656
2020 0.07410554
2021
2022
Cuba | 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 Cuba
Records
63
Source