Denmark | 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
Kingdom of Denmark
Records
63
Source
Denmark | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.06755699 1970
0.05573779 1971
0.05601073 1972
0.06083818 1973
0.04519193 1974
0.04584938 1975
0.04968102 1976
0.04025006 1977
0.04370097 1978
0.04772913 1979
0.05473554 1980
0.04972439 1981
0.08146224 1982
0.05772384 1983
0.0439475 1984
0.04062547 1985
0.03465605 1986
0.02556277 1987
0.02657846 1988
0.02909667 1989
0.02298381 1990
0.01725473 1991
0.01632885 1992
0.01650339 1993
0.01551023 1994
0.01538568 1995
0.01545496 1996
0.01307958 1997
0.01220591 1998
0.01158785 1999
0.0292464 2000
0.0129093 2001
0.01136726 2002
0.01145964 2003
0.00888426 2004
0.01457587 2005
0.01228699 2006
0.01479623 2007
0.01417312 2008
0.01467529 2009
0.0171826 2010
0.01524076 2011
0.01648601 2012
0.02020879 2013
0.02247424 2014
0.02260801 2015
0.01941522 2016
0.01705058 2017
0.01941419 2018
0.01540711 2019
0.01314242 2020
0.01326914 2021
2022
Denmark | 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
Kingdom of Denmark
Records
63
Source