Guinea-Bissau | 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 Guinea-Bissau
Records
63
Source
Guinea-Bissau | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 6.39173743
1971 6.04334905
1972 6.46788366
1973 10.38240014
1974 11.12072372
1975 13.55338663
1976 12.74289522
1977 22.06955096
1978 22.1804517
1979 23.60104867
1980 32.43541923
1981 20.13635625
1982 25.91002989
1983 18.10080059
1984 19.41324817
1985 14.3987619
1986 24.03377596
1987 17.72241767
1988 20.86621793
1989 16.56699168
1990 18.08760891
1991 17.3009835
1992 19.78542498
1993 15.97232647
1994 19.0093555
1995 26.06173992
1996 24.17085897
1997 22.87405395
1998 31.59983765
1999 19.26880179
2000 11.85681153
2001 11.02701519
2002 12.57786619
2003 17.82676717
2004 14.1311491
2005 13.39636907
2006 13.36373112
2007 16.72343629
2008 15.98064891
2009 17.19744802
2010 14.9307329
2011 13.24877558
2012 17.11985675
2013 16.93992331
2014 18.69878389
2015 19.8714177
2016 18.70150461
2017 15.98573326
2018 9.88886799
2019 9.94740074
2020 11.15158604
2021 10.42850377
2022

Guinea-Bissau | 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 Guinea-Bissau
Records
63
Source