Madagascar | 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
Republic of Madagascar
Records
63
Source
Madagascar | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
2.91882362 1970
2.75692465 1971
2.01983258 1972
2.17224461 1973
1.47436137 1974
2.04873699 1975
1.82505265 1976
3.5500137 1977
3.41027009 1978
2.87961043 1979
2.31043005 1980
2.21304636 1981
2.89482276 1982
2.19506884 1983
2.44203487 1984
2.08769596 1985
2.80057588 1986
3.84879616 1987
4.2501276 1988
4.52381629 1989
5.13492322 1990
6.19928103 1991
5.70482651 1992
4.26807702 1993
5.43387401 1994
7.72049113 1995
6.097358 1996
5.9833152 1997
5.7142102 1998
3.51090027 1999
3.28311953 2000
2.78738586 2001
3.50534579 2002
5.2185584 2003
6.15954217 2004
5.46519263 2005
5.62204188 2006
6.43417443 2007
5.805561 2008
6.87733921 2009
5.68747857 2010
5.5749453 2011
6.40089316 2012
6.2335759 2013
7.09219197 2014
8.54403808 2015
8.71432923 2016
7.54420357 2017
4.70033922 2018
4.61458138 2019
5.61001843 2020
5.44735877 2021
2022
Madagascar | 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
Republic of Madagascar
Records
63
Source