Honduras | 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 Honduras
Records
63
Source
Honduras | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 3.91689188
1971 3.72024557
1972 4.34264476
1973 5.88974718
1974 5.17737685
1975 5.85170696
1976 4.00479261
1977 5.19884907
1978 2.92588224
1979 2.68032766
1980 2.94123833
1981 2.60343141
1982 4.80098263
1983 1.66288886
1984 1.04019527
1985 0.57958082
1986 0.54659806
1987 0.55458181
1988 0.67167064
1989 0.70332331
1990 2.18365087
1991 2.55462927
1992 2.16847833
1993 1.82647998
1994 2.26125693
1995 2.44112957
1996 1.95531636
1997 2.32919585
1998 1.85426721
1999 1.687614
2000 1.37113446
2001 1.31600286
2002 1.33123797
2003 1.21682443
2004 1.14334492
2005 1.04843926
2006 1.25809015
2007 1.15158384
2008 1.07686374
2009 0.90821098
2010 1.83675935
2011 1.41382296
2012 1.29458869
2013 1.70517521
2014 2.00016005
2015 1.45135838
2016 1.85421965
2017 1.59236944
2018 1.07049474
2019 0.91540507
2020 1.23205369
2021 0.83896147
2022

Honduras | 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 Honduras
Records
63
Source