Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source
Japan | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.14246044 1970
0.14687245 1971
0.12094421 1972
0.14794585 1973
0.11674028 1974
0.11090518 1975
0.10986978 1976
0.07597675 1977
0.0680832 1978
0.09384212 1979
0.10224443 1980
0.06973487 1981
0.09529579 1982
0.07060722 1983
0.05059933 1984
0.05956557 1985
0.03753925 1986
0.02934115 1987
0.02449093 1988
0.0275874 1989
0.02707228 1990
0.02214025 1991
0.01848858 1992
0.0179261 1993
0.01372106 1994
0.01249836 1995
0.01404085 1996
0.01236257 1997
0.01119529 1998
0.00841189 1999
0.00764415 2000
0.0072141 2001
0.0076069 2002
0.00777474 2003
0.0057486 2004
0.00786507 2005
0.00906273 2006
0.01149366 2007
0.01220209 2008
0.0102616 2009
0.00972315 2010
0.00939955 2011
0.00945177 2012
0.01294964 2013
0.01577961 2014
0.01741026 2015
0.01712231 2016
0.02896143 2017
0.02487007 2018
0.02385163 2019
0.02355445 2020
0.02870311 2021
2022
Japan | 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
State of Japan
Records
63
Source