Greece | 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
Hellenic Republic
Records
63
Source
Greece | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.05777315 1970
0.05309649 1971
0.04552781 1972
0.05646886 1973
0.05249152 1974
0.06613738 1975
0.06445881 1976
0.06542015 1977
0.04607285 1978
0.04907372 1979
0.05576446 1980
0.04757994 1981
0.04420834 1982
0.04702805 1983
0.03969004 1984
0.04151989 1985
0.04986982 1986
0.03662077 1987
0.04371114 1988
0.04121814 1989
0.03273252 1990
0.0267905 1991
0.0201243 1992
0.01942913 1993
0.018328 1994
0.01730864 1995
0.01873191 1996
0.01268722 1997
0.00962931 1998
0.01305886 1999
0.01335465 2000
0.01128748 2001
0.00980991 2002
0.01050227 2003
0.00714801 2004
0.00708736 2005
0.00742398 2006
0.00892741 2007
0.00895179 2008
0.0061788 2009
0.00698267 2010
0.00794899 2011
0.01075438 2012
0.0126266 2013
0.01282244 2014
0.01234642 2015
0.01246854 2016
0.01408013 2017
0.0130537 2018
0.00955675 2019
0.00906454 2020
0.00857648 2021
2022
Greece | 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
Hellenic Republic
Records
63
Source