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Forest Rents (As % of GDP)

Source: World Bank

Last Updated: Jun 1, 2015

Based on a comparison of 169 countries in 2014, Liberia ranked the highest in forest rents as a percentage of GDP with 27.3% followed by Bhutan and Guinea Bissau. On the other end of the scale was Qatar with < 0.001%, United Arab Emirates with < 0.001% and Israel with < 0.001%.

Average forest rents as a percentage of GDP reached 0.391% in 2014 in the World according to Faostat. This is 16.4% more than in the previous year and 37.7% more than 10 years ago.

Historically, average forest rents as a percentage of GDP reached an all time high of 0.450% in 1990 and an all time low of 0.118% in 1985. The average annual growth amounted to 1.90% since 1970.

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Country	Unit	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Afghanistan	%			...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...								1.75	1.36	1.78	1.53	1.28
Albania	%	...	...	...	...																									0.095	0.124	0.091	0.317	0.239
Algeria	%																													0.222	0.275	0.257	0.295	0.264
Angola	%	...	...	...	...	...																								0.404	0.449	0.379	0.320	0.328		...
Argentina	%																													0.245	0.270	0.341	0.232	0.244
Armenia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...		...	...									0.260	0.546	0.366	0.672	0.446
Australia	%																													0.188	0.165	0.135	0.120	0.093
Austria	%																													0.271	0.193	0.232	0.228	0.216
Azerbaijan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...											< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Bahamas	%																													0.034	0.039	0.040	0.046	0.038
Bahrain	%																													0.001	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.001
Bangladesh	%																													1.30	1.12	1.83	1.74	1.42
Belarus	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																	0.582	0.685	0.689	0.748	1.01
Belgium	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...									0.057	0.048	0.057	0.058	0.058
Belize	%																													0.784	0.759	1.26	0.964	0.903
Benin	%																													5.02	5.07	4.66	4.71	5.35
Bhutan	%																													17.2	16.6	24.6	22.6	19.5
Bolivia	%																													1.40	1.29	1.94	1.31	1.17
Bosnia and Herzegovina	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...															0.786	0.721	0.764	0.927	0.868
Botswana	%																													0.444	0.451	0.332	0.303	0.370
Brazil	%																													1.07	1.07	1.29	0.990	1.12
Brunei	%																													0.081	0.103	0.103	0.078	0.072
Bulgaria	%																													0.412	0.342	0.377	0.457	0.392
Burkina Faso	%																													9.20	9.14	7.69	7.31	8.17
Burundi	%																													32.7	30.7	23.7	23.1	16.1
Cambodia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																3.89	3.43	4.00	4.40	4.03
Cameroon	%																													3.47	3.05	3.06	3.09	3.33
Canada	%																													0.453	0.362	0.403	0.402	0.374
Central African Republic	%																													11.8	9.02	8.40	9.04	10.4
Chad	%																													4.28	4.71	3.72	3.70	4.24
Chile	%																													2.32	1.92	1.51	1.57	1.41
China	%																													0.479	0.449	0.435	0.384	0.353
Colombia	%																													0.253	0.330	0.442	0.311	0.280
Comoros	%																													3.05	3.06	2.79	2.92	3.52
Congo	%																													3.50	3.19	2.68	2.48	3.23
Costa Rica	%																													1.22	1.09	1.51	1.02	0.989
Croatia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...														0.532	0.535	0.663	0.750	0.803
Cuba	%																													0.210	0.223	0.291	0.227	0.210		...
Cyprus	%																													0.003	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.002
Czech Republic	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																0.291	0.273	0.328	0.289	0.292
Dem. Republic of the Congo	%																													22.0	23.5	18.6	18.3	18.5
Denmark	%																													0.047	0.046	0.047	0.043	0.039
Djibouti	%	...	...	...	...	...		...																						1.59	1.52	1.56	2.06	1.78
Dominican Republic	%																													0.085	0.078	0.147	0.107	0.098
East Timor	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...									0.837	0.611	0.633	0.647	0.553
Ecuador	%																													0.693	0.706	1.12	0.810	0.791
Egypt	%																													0.513	0.438	0.418	0.544	0.438
El Salvador	%																													1.33	1.29	2.30	1.71	1.63
Equatorial Guinea	%																													0.470	0.734	0.456	0.383	0.358
Eritrea	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																4.27	2.39	1.87	1.84	2.52		...
Estonia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...														1.07	1.24	1.76	1.51	1.49
Ethiopia	%	...																												18.7	16.3	15.5	16.6	14.3
European Union	%																													0.126	0.112	0.133	0.131	0.130
Fiji	%																													0.914	1.04	1.64	1.35	1.32
Finland	%																													1.06	0.833	1.12	1.05	1.08
France	%																													0.114	0.107	0.121	0.113	0.107
Gabon	%																													3.82	2.94	1.95	1.44	2.00
Gambia	%																													5.17	5.28	4.61	5.47	6.27
Georgia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...											0.175	0.264	0.170	0.213	0.073
Germany	%																													0.088	0.070	0.087	0.086	0.082
Ghana	%																													6.57	7.56	5.72	5.39	6.05
Greece	%																													0.028	0.017	0.020	0.023	0.036
Guatemala	%																													2.02	2.10	3.95	2.76	2.45
Guinea	%	...	...	...	...	...	...																							14.6	14.5	12.4	13.1	13.6
Guinea Bissau	%																													16.1	17.3	14.9	13.1	17.6
Guyana	%																													5.45	4.91	7.71	5.51	4.98
Haiti	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																		1.74	1.62	3.10	2.17	2.00
Honduras	%																													3.01	2.56	4.73	3.31	2.94
Hong Kong	%																													0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002
Hungary	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																		0.148	0.168	0.164	0.220	0.194
Iceland	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	0.001	0.001
India	%																													1.44	1.25	1.81	1.71	1.51
Indonesia	%																													1.93	1.54	1.26	1.23	1.26
Iraq	%												...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...					0.010	0.011	0.012	0.010	0.009
Iran	%												...	...																0.026	0.025	0.028	0.019	0.028
Ireland	%																													0.040	0.043	0.057	0.054	0.053
Israel	%																													< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Italy	%																													0.023	0.020	0.022	0.020	0.020
Ivory Coast	%																													2.69	2.54	2.75	3.00	3.22
Jamaica	%																													0.339	0.363	0.583	0.429	0.415
Japan	%																													0.017	0.013	0.013	0.014	0.013
Jordan	%																													0.063	0.058	0.059	0.078	0.070
Kazakhstan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							...										0.007	0.009	0.005	0.006	0.004
Kenya	%																													3.64	3.69	2.94	3.17	3.08
Kuwait	%																													< 0.001	< 0.001	0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Kyrgyzstan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...												0.019	0.029	0.025	0.029	0.021
Laos	%	...	...	...	...																									6.22	5.09	5.82	6.97	6.21
Latvia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																	1.25	1.82	2.93	2.36	2.87
Lebanon	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					0.004	0.003	0.003	0.004	0.003
Lesotho	%																													5.92	6.01	4.02	3.98	4.89
Liberia	%																													43.7	33.3	27.7	26.8	28.6
Libya	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																			0.066	0.090	0.091	0.252	0.109
Liechtenstein	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																	0.032	0.029	0.027	0.029	0.023	...	...
Lithuania	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																	0.681	0.795	1.12	0.961	0.881
Luxembourg	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...									0.060	0.038	0.038	0.034	0.036
Macao	%	...	...																											0.001	0.002	0.001	0.001	< 0.001
Macedonia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																0.217	0.233	0.163	0.214	0.220
Madagascar	%																													6.62	7.74	6.51	6.51	7.47
Malawi	%																													10.7	8.37	7.32	7.83	12.0
Malaysia	%																													1.31	1.27	0.966	0.783	0.780
Maldives	%																													0.030	0.029	0.050	0.051	0.043
Mali	%																													3.55	3.46	3.00	3.03	3.63
Mauritania	%																													2.03	2.42	1.79	1.76	2.20
Mauritius	%																													0.009	0.012	0.007	0.005	0.004
Mexico	%																													0.191	0.209	0.346	0.244	0.229
Moldova	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...														0.163	0.227	0.149	0.183	0.184		...
Mongolia	%	...																												0.635	0.702	0.550	0.488	0.369
Montenegro	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...			0.364	0.292	0.509	0.684	0.586
Morocco	%																													0.404	0.382	0.414	0.517	0.505
Mozambique	%																													8.62	9.04	8.74	7.66	8.01
Myanmar	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	4.19
Namibia	%																													0.740	0.754	0.495	0.491	0.556
Nepal	%																													5.31	4.98	7.30	6.32	5.51
Netherlands	%																													0.008	0.007	0.008	0.007	0.007
New Zealand	%																													0.569	0.560	0.622	0.606	0.562
Nicaragua	%																													3.24	2.96	6.28	4.26	3.77
Niger	%																													10.3	10.4	8.87	9.07	9.81
Nigeria	%																													2.14	2.51	1.05	1.06	1.09
Norway	%																													0.113	0.101	0.119	0.103	0.096
Oman	%																													0.003	0.005	0.004	0.005	0.003
Pakistan	%																													0.903	0.880	1.51	1.30	1.08
Panama	%																													0.298	0.268	0.450	0.314	0.270
Papua New Guinea	%																													7.84	7.05	8.34	6.60	5.40
Paraguay	%																													4.69	5.25	6.79	4.53	4.74
Peru	%																													0.477	0.402	0.599	0.436	0.375
Philippines	%																													0.602	0.572	0.522	0.559	0.514
Poland	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																			0.325	0.338	0.336	0.333	0.348
Portugal	%																													0.355	0.288	0.300	0.360	0.413
Qatar	%																													< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Romania	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																						0.285	0.310	0.338	0.375	0.394
Russia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																	0.522	0.674	0.667	0.574	0.513
Rwanda	%																													8.72	7.26	6.30	6.21	6.30
Saudi Arabia	%																													0.002	0.003	0.003	0.003	0.002
Senegal	%																													2.84	2.83	2.56	2.59	3.06
Serbia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...			0.285	0.309	0.513	0.652	0.552
Seychelles	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																			0.180	0.158	0.144	0.142	0.150
Sierra Leone	%																													11.0	11.8	9.74	9.86	8.90
Singapore	%																													< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
Slovakia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																0.515	0.469	0.531	0.512	0.488
Slovenia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...														0.258	0.246	0.275	0.303	0.320
Somalia	%												...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
South Africa	%																													0.913	0.740	0.538	0.469	0.620
South Korea	%																													0.025	0.027	0.026	0.024	0.023
South Sudan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	1.15	2.60		...
Spain	%																													0.081	0.063	0.074	0.075	0.078
Sri Lanka	%																													0.712	0.656	0.872	0.767	0.632
Sudan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	1.23	1.53
Suriname	%																													0.842	0.810	1.21	1.49	1.67
Swaziland	%																													2.21	2.16	1.75	1.38	1.60
Sweden	%																													0.725	0.676	0.741	0.668	0.624
Switzerland	%																													0.051	0.042	0.046	0.039	0.036
Syria	%																													...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Tajikistan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...					0.038	0.057	0.031	0.045	0.027
Tanzania	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																					4.97	4.75	3.99	4.16	4.41		...
Thailand	%																													0.940	0.910	0.798	0.808	0.784
Togo	%																													7.37	7.54	6.55	6.25	6.92
Trinidad and Tobago	%																													0.032	0.045	0.059	0.053	0.049
Tunisia	%																													0.276	0.280	0.318	0.401	0.577
Turkey	%																													0.109	0.124	0.107	0.123	0.115
Turkmenistan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...											0.001	0.002	< 0.001	0.001	...	...	...
Uganda	%																													16.6	13.3	10.7	12.4	12.5
Ukraine	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...														0.308	0.424	0.350	0.412	0.316
United Arab Emirates	%																													< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001
United Kingdom	%																													0.015	0.016	0.020	0.019	0.018
USA	%																													0.150	0.113	0.123	0.131	0.119
Uruguay	%																													3.91	3.15	4.09	2.94	2.27
Uzbekistan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...											0.004	0.004	0.002	0.003	0.003
Venezuela	%																													0.109	0.099	0.142	0.142	0.109		...
Vietnam	%	...	...	...	...	...																								1.71	1.47	1.59	1.54	1.37
Yemen	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...																			0.063	0.068	0.071	0.104	0.096		...
Zambia	%																													3.38	3.84	2.66	2.57	2.83
Zimbabwe	%																													9.61	5.50	4.07	3.99	4.10
World	%																													0.322	0.307	0.353	0.334	0.331

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