Iran, Islamic Rep. | 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
Islamic Republic of Iran
Records
63
Source
Iran, Islamic Rep. | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.3955164 1970
0.96119816 1971
0.30956211 1972
0.17518587 1973
0.10367019 1974
0.2182676 1975
0.0802572 1976
0.12637981 1977
0.12896839 1978
0.15688363 1979
0.15502539 1980
0.10867759 1981
0.10228592 1982
0.07801866 1983
0.05850937 1984
0.05245883 1985
0.05846088 1986
0.09584743 1987
0.02146485 1988
0.02653731 1989
0.02390704 1990
1991
1992
0.09858126 1993
0.02932156 1994
0.03497406 1995
0.035164 1996
0.04156246 1997
0.03717644 1998
0.06863792 1999
0.02886366 2000
0.04243096 2001
0.02218467 2002
0.02294858 2003
0.00961467 2004
0.00761246 2005
0.00874409 2006
0.00781872 2007
0.01231206 2008
0.0122327 2009
0.01153126 2010
0.00802826 2011
0.00967819 2012
0.013193 2013
0.01457315 2014
0.00813361 2015
0.00389787 2016
0.00624743 2017
0.01147547 2018
0.01549431 2019
0.01232296 2020
0.00800076 2021
2022
Iran, Islamic Rep. | 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
Islamic Republic of Iran
Records
63
Source