Togo | 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
Togolese Republic
Records
63
Source
Togo | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
6.38800581 1970
4.97557072 1971
4.87646389 1972
6.78043653 1973
5.44641168 1974
6.73244854 1975
6.06434288 1976
8.67906105 1977
8.25156362 1978
7.24050684 1979
6.68311344 1980
7.09872041 1981
11.96055092 1982
8.52877556 1983
8.30313539 1984
5.7484871 1985
6.67663611 1986
5.59683136 1987
5.59521461 1988
5.85673981 1989
6.11169329 1990
6.29687125 1991
6.23238966 1992
7.36144125 1993
11.10599912 1994
12.62685673 1995
11.25173023 1996
10.67538865 1997
10.38014581 1998
6.80166561 1999
7.14401583 2000
6.64861942 2001
6.84815672 2002
9.30157253 2003
6.20709631 2004
6.06053718 2005
5.74325666 2006
7.4671425 2007
6.99863551 2008
7.068609 2009
6.06836084 2010
6.12185994 2011
7.28050911 2012
6.74375051 2013
6.98463683 2014
7.79818031 2015
5.72106302 2016
5.33148764 2017
3.15110743 2018
3.00254428 2019
3.12804385 2020
2.98358217 2021
2022
Togo | 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
Togolese Republic
Records
63
Source