Myanmar | 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 the Union of Myanmar
Records
63
Source
Myanmar | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970 7.19637121
1971 7.63163513
1972 9.48031584
1973 19.43879887
1974 12.55357335
1975 12.28036045
1976 12.6464609
1977 19.78739732
1978 20.53080625
1979 31.0240089
1980 33.25655323
1981 20.09531398
1982 19.6680349
1983 16.63828145
1984 11.18273235
1985 12.04296408
1986 14.14002254
1987 16.97916491
1988 16.9460651
1989 15.13835087
1990 18.74953048
1991 20.36371457
1992 24.87362848
1993 16.47573995
1994 14.2340083
1995 16.64243709
1996 14.78754842
1997 12.9279353
1998 12.64441371
1999 7.20100031
2000 6.05338203
2001 7.94213208
2002 8.78142162
2003 10.5765205
2004 8.47187608
2005 5.96017553
2006 6.53713682
2007 7.21577937
2008 7.58644132
2009 5.4637805
2010 4.27334613
2011 3.96289838
2012 3.25442889
2013 3.05382023
2014 4.04551684
2015 2.93589041
2016 3.43421863
2017 3.96181166
2018 2.05183448
2019 1.83230054
2020 1.93462564
2021 2.17227831
2022

Myanmar | 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 the Union of Myanmar
Records
63
Source