Macao SAR, China | 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
Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source
Macao SAR, China | Forest rents (% of GDP)
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1981
0.00180635 1982
0.00186693 1983
0.00255971 1984
0.00250333 1985
0.00369866 1986
0.00291007 1987
0.00254336 1988
0.00222094 1989
0.00191367 1990
0.00191074 1991
0.00195002 1992
0.00143463 1993
0.00175308 1994
0.00265987 1995
0.00272246 1996
0.0024701 1997
0.00206941 1998
0.00114701 1999
0.00109989 2000
0.00125156 2001
0.00129295 2002
0.00166555 2003
0.00142007 2004
0.00081329 2005
0.00076285 2006
0.00091444 2007
0.00134691 2008
0.00122316 2009
0.00090534 2010
0.00091869 2011
0.00063777 2012
0.00052157 2013
0.00070775 2014
0.0006767 2015
0.00076634 2016
0.00081658 2017
0.0003785 2018
0.0003453 2019
0.00092362 2020
0.00072456 2021
2022
Macao SAR, China | 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
Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source