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