India | 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 India
Records
63
Source
India | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.41038829 1970
0.34118426 1971
0.33116662 1972
0.47556449 1973
0.49019327 1974
1.06999843 1975
0.67951402 1976
1.81326608 1977
1.6189458 1978
0.67490996 1979
0.66463215 1980
0.56998948 1981
0.83459201 1982
0.53666233 1983
0.46659006 1984
0.31418127 1985
0.53493122 1986
0.44430514 1987
0.4434727 1988
0.4430028 1989
0.53757853 1990
0.62412887 1991
0.61049842 1992
0.62034034 1993
0.44967394 1994
0.48963944 1995
0.41874162 1996
0.37887808 1997
0.36263435 1998
0.38552982 1999
0.3393297 2000
0.32822682 2001
0.37167373 2002
0.33928373 2003
0.2427996 2004
0.21192955 2005
0.28204866 2006
0.3017577 2007
0.29930517 2008
0.25920347 2009
0.37655774 2010
0.35161291 2011
0.30953265 2012
0.27967579 2013
0.26503112 2014
0.29500466 2015
0.29793836 2016
0.2067938 2017
0.14883514 2018
0.15588842 2019
0.18625915 2020
0.16072595 2021
2022
India | 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 India
Records
63
Source