Djibouti - Forest rents (% of GDP)

Forest rents (% of GDP) in Djibouti was 0.287 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 34 years was 0.947 in 1998, while its lowest value was 0.175 in 1985.

Definition: Forest rents are roundwood harvest times the product of average prices and a region-specific rental rate.

Source: Estimates based on sources and methods described in "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (World Bank, 2011).

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Year Value
1985 0.175
1987 0.552
1988 0.563
1989 0.589
1990 0.568
1991 0.583
1992 0.496
1993 0.381
1994 0.419
1995 0.632
1996 0.664
1997 0.677
1998 0.947
1999 0.391
2000 0.382
2001 0.416
2002 0.454
2003 0.623
2004 0.573
2005 0.529
2006 0.616
2007 0.523
2008 0.790
2009 0.743
2010 0.838
2011 0.888
2012 0.894
2013 0.523
2014 0.789
2015 0.661
2016 0.485
2017 0.574
2018 0.265
2019 0.287

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.

Limitations and Exceptions: This definition of economic rent differs from that used in the System of National Accounts, where rents are a form of property income, consisting of payments to landowners by a tenant for the use of the land or payments to the owners of subsoil assets by institutional units permitting them to extract subsoil deposits.

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 world price of units of specific commodities and subtracting estimates of average unit costs of extraction or harvesting costs (including a normal return on capital). 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).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Natural resources contribution to GDP