Venezuela, RB | 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
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Records
63
Source
Venezuela, RB | Forest rents (% of GDP)
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
0.07374153 1970
0.06371813 1971
0.07669693 1972
0.10045626 1973
0.07294102 1974
0.09635576 1975
0.07646302 1976
0.08981142 1977
0.0918912 1978
0.10204041 1979
0.08730322 1980
0.06580713 1981
0.1042325 1982
0.07154302 1983
0.03847533 1984
0.03677337 1985
0.04983923 1986
0.08916734 1987
0.07261315 1988
0.09709342 1989
0.12108094 1990
0.1129509 1991
0.12306078 1992
0.12025666 1993
0.11344119 1994
0.10395393 1995
0.10354296 1996
0.0954658 1997
0.07715157 1998
0.07903832 1999
0.0458247 2000
0.04423428 2001
0.07346614 2002
0.07321896 2003
0.05803168 2004
0.04482474 2005
0.04959146 2006
0.04857298 2007
0.04139034 2008
0.03782701 2009
0.05532072 2010
0.06070343 2011
0.04679064 2012
0.06149828 2013
0.05447667 2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
Venezuela, RB | 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
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
Records
63
Source