Jordan | 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
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Records
63
Source
Jordan | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.0288341 1970
0.03713546 1971
0.03105206 1972
0.03485626 1973
0.03218755 1974
0.03516826 1975
0.02265441 1976
0.02818538 1977
0.02728362 1978
0.02042482 1979
0.02049347 1980
0.01819488 1981
0.03954819 1982
0.02743756 1983
0.02828615 1984
0.0113933 1985
0.02364467 1986
0.0228036 1987
0.02526568 1988
0.04126411 1989
0.04350694 1990
0.04485802 1991
0.03182311 1992
0.02437309 1993
0.02268589 1994
0.03243803 1995
0.03341515 1996
0.02697588 1997
0.04735443 1998
0.02341552 1999
0.02024473 2000
0.02258669 2001
0.02365675 2002
0.03152814 2003
0.02744827 2004
0.02522112 2005
0.02645414 2006
0.02211975 2007
0.03006243 2008
0.02773635 2009
0.03078132 2010
0.03298235 2011
0.0360811 2012
0.0282913 2013
0.04277215 2014
0.03775437 2015
0.02878394 2016
0.03498526 2017
0.01791592 2018
0.02354616 2019
0.02212035 2020
0.02029721 2021
2022
Jordan | 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
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Records
63
Source