Egypt, Arab Rep. | 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
Arab Republic of Egypt
Records
63
Source
Egypt, Arab Rep. | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 0.33729282
1971 0.28542922
1972 0.30941058
1973 0.37493318
1974 0.4636567
1975 0.45727922
1976 0.31987441
1977 0.48896799
1978 0.60091134
1979 0.43435193
1980 0.44430295
1981 0.44121814
1982 0.82648998
1983 0.50008698
1984 0.4621666
1985 0.14690007
1986 0.39867271
1987 0.41757393
1988 0.49319082
1989 0.44444552
1990 0.42011094
1991 0.49632447
1992 0.38543284
1993 0.25972006
1994 0.25517755
1995 0.32801719
1996 0.30272098
1997 0.26417325
1998 0.33988388
1999 0.1551424
2000 0.12428437
2001 0.14832261
2002 0.18448496
2003 0.27156503
2004 0.26365633
2005 0.22966846
2006 0.23517605
2007 0.18018152
2008 0.25420442
2009 0.21406103
2010 0.22185096
2011 0.23468633
2012 0.22757118
2013 0.18431038
2014 0.27453318
2015 0.23023025
2016 0.1762651
2017 0.30990396
2018 0.15466744
2019 0.17023477
2020 0.12752569
2021 0.10757962
2022
Egypt, Arab Rep. | 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
Arab Republic of Egypt
Records
63
Source