Finland | 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 Finland
Records
63
Source
Finland | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1.46563425 1970
1.22610459 1971
1.2013024 1972
1.41993707 1973
1.20731273 1974
0.8727708 1975
0.85004171 1976
0.80560477 1977
1.09340876 1978
1.22712916 1979
1.18012867 1980
0.98098475 1981
0.8081997 1982
0.74512391 1983
0.64703295 1984
0.72408663 1985
0.63406501 1986
0.54807515 1987
0.50536068 1988
0.5306277 1989
0.43901928 1990
0.29825346 1991
0.38665303 1992
0.52233312 1993
0.51642649 1994
0.46065158 1995
0.4597168 1996
0.44122219 1997
0.43579355 1998
0.37665169 1999
0.4047886 2000
0.36900822 2001
0.40915393 2002
0.35814493 2003
0.26605498 2004
0.25057302 2005
0.26547502 2006
0.31121858 2007
0.28990932 2008
0.25254909 2009
0.32242409 2010
0.3045947 2011
0.29062793 2012
0.31703442 2013
0.33290382 2014
0.34675542 2015
0.34673297 2016
0.31331871 2017
0.41656387 2018
0.30868906 2019
0.25413669 2020
0.29360247 2021
2022
Finland | 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 Finland
Records
63
Source