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
0.33729282 1970
0.28542922 1971
0.30941058 1972
0.37493318 1973
0.4636567 1974
0.45727922 1975
0.31987441 1976
0.48896799 1977
0.60091134 1978
0.43435193 1979
0.44430295 1980
0.44121814 1981
0.82648998 1982
0.50008698 1983
0.4621666 1984
0.14690007 1985
0.39867271 1986
0.41757393 1987
0.49319082 1988
0.44444552 1989
0.42011094 1990
0.49632447 1991
0.38543284 1992
0.25972006 1993
0.25517755 1994
0.32801719 1995
0.30272098 1996
0.26417325 1997
0.33988388 1998
0.1551424 1999
0.12428437 2000
0.14832261 2001
0.18448496 2002
0.27156503 2003
0.26365633 2004
0.22966846 2005
0.23517605 2006
0.18018152 2007
0.25420442 2008
0.21406103 2009
0.22185096 2010
0.23468633 2011
0.22757118 2012
0.18431038 2013
0.27453318 2014
0.23023025 2015
0.1762651 2016
0.30990396 2017
0.15466744 2018
0.17023477 2019
0.12752569 2020
0.10757962 2021
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