Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Late-demographic dividend | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.9982813 1970
0.9856476 1971
1.2745028 1972
2.03865973 1973
1.6293147 1974
1.69183331 1975
1.83372654 1976
1.94866774 1977
1.90675773 1978
2.2657994 1979
2.20326171 1980
1.51164437 1981
2.00988088 1982
1.75161142 1983
1.14770517 1984
1.0715134 1985
1.35418843 1986
1.56035394 1987
0.8650976 1988
0.89273036 1989
0.8093722 1990
0.84439071 1991
1.13585749 1992
1.01966032 1993
0.82992243 1994
0.809049 1995
0.6944832 1996
0.58104963 1997
0.49836 1998
0.48606845 1999
0.43350733 2000
0.4098048 2001
0.40984651 2002
0.4753332 2003
0.34402965 2004
0.31000805 2005
0.32198042 2006
0.35983323 2007
0.34737307 2008
0.32094607 2009
0.33048315 2010
0.28468628 2011
0.26785921 2012
0.25538593 2013
0.27941239 2014
0.24286529 2015
0.25480691 2016
0.27874466 2017
0.24997389 2018
0.21764585 2019
0.23452991 2020
0.19021392 2021
2022
Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source