Spain | 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
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source
Spain | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.11778195 1970
0.09973204 1971
0.1014477 1972
0.1089241 1973
0.10920978 1974
0.10526384 1975
0.10869029 1976
0.09968762 1977
0.0980066 1978
0.08552479 1979
0.10105543 1980
0.09423947 1981
0.10187016 1982
0.10774385 1983
0.08904771 1984
0.08713006 1985
0.08018302 1986
0.06804312 1987
0.06113165 1988
0.07263727 1989
0.04799756 1990
0.03497366 1991
0.03108391 1992
0.04002631 1993
0.04325323 1994
0.04338616 1995
0.04238889 1996
0.0371181 1997
0.03501066 1998
0.03224685 1999
0.03374197 2000
0.03176006 2001
0.03284559 2002
0.02819046 2003
0.0200368 2004
0.01783795 2005
0.02077649 2006
0.02113345 2007
0.02568504 2008
0.02335967 2009
0.02554452 2010
0.02499094 2011
0.02514551 2012
0.0256216 2013
0.02890556 2014
0.02862828 2015
0.02624926 2016
0.0231565 2017
0.02929837 2018
0.02125635 2019
0.01950396 2020
0.01796651 2021
2022
Spain | 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
Kingdom of Spain
Records
63
Source