Cyprus | 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 Cyprus
Records
63
Source
Cyprus | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975 0.21074051
1976 0.41413651
1977 0.2673766
1978 0.15884369
1979 0.12301726
1980 0.08673286
1981 0.08969447
1982 0.06440411
1983 0.05234572
1984 0.04961386
1985 0.04898142
1986 0.04157651
1987 0.0364276
1988 0.03842673
1989 0.02615867
1990 0.01858724
1991 0.01649108
1992 0.01091564
1993 0.01168397
1994 0.00959881
1995 0.00774001
1996 0.0081698
1997 0.00657092
1998 0.00405786
1999 0.00445923
2000 0.00239576
2001 0.00201678
2002 0.00145478
2003 0.00103047
2004 0.00078318
2005 0.00073024
2006 0.00058887
2007 0.00152167
2008 0.00154224
2009 0.00078014
2010 0.00065911
2011 0.00068855
2012 0.00087923
2013 0.00075657
2014 0.0007738
2015 0.00099737
2016 0.00119502
2017 0.0012944
2018 0.00095814
2019 0.00081056
2020 0.00080685
2021 0.00083954
2022

Cyprus | 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 Cyprus
Records
63
Source