Luxembourg | 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
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Records
63
Source
Luxembourg | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.05241493 1970
0.05760262 1971
0.05610041 1972
0.059251 1973
0.05157789 1974
0.0627908 1975
0.0640655 1976
0.05288537 1977
0.04702707 1978
0.04833993 1979
0.05175715 1980
0.04560979 1981
0.0524404 1982
0.04897128 1983
0.04288913 1984
0.04692928 1985
0.03856085 1986
0.03551065 1987
0.03595468 1988
0.04272579 1989
0.03620676 1990
0.02478154 1991
0.02083989 1992
0.02289025 1993
0.02002492 1994
0.01829701 1995
0.01893176 1996
0.01609894 1997
0.01741674 1998
0.01744323 1999
0.01900862 2000
0.01878757 2001
0.01725268 2002
0.01506645 2003
0.0096572 2004
0.00984259 2005
0.01165927 2006
0.01455089 2007
0.01420325 2008
0.01388653 2009
0.01747289 2010
0.01518523 2011
0.01334003 2012
0.00955371 2013
0.01165399 2014
0.01216473 2015
0.01006631 2016
0.00960957 2017
0.01316141 2018
0.00887357 2019
0.0066636 2020
0.00475137 2021
2022

Luxembourg | 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
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
Records
63
Source