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