Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Early-demographic dividend | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.63476163 1970
0.58892891 1971
0.60888267 1972
0.91296304 1973
0.67416463 1974
0.76826922 1975
0.62109912 1976
0.96134867 1977
0.86577959 1978
0.68029604 1979
0.63871485 1980
0.51625201 1981
0.74889722 1982
0.50948322 1983
0.41538547 1984
0.34849501 1985
0.50592317 1986
0.53805013 1987
0.52241325 1988
0.5419451 1989
0.53878099 1990
0.54762904 1991
0.5371575 1992
0.4482335 1993
0.46150027 1994
0.57864192 1995
0.52443009 1996
0.45214713 1997
0.4537515 1998
0.33981055 1999
0.29230324 2000
0.29481652 2001
0.35224007 2002
0.42419423 2003
0.31292283 2004
0.2771946 2005
0.29713652 2006
0.33197355 2007
0.3672752 2008
0.35255648 2009
0.35400286 2010
0.34121852 2011
0.33262528 2012
0.33798366 2013
0.37816587 2014
0.38101932 2015
0.39897125 2016
0.3754027 2017
0.28711036 2018
0.27568494 2019
0.3247504 2020
0.27397865 2021
2022
Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source