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Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978

1978, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978 covers 92 countries. Brunei is highest, at 94.330; Uganda is lowest, at 5.114. The middle country reads 25.743. Against 1977, 91 values changed (43 up, 48 down), 1 country joined.

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Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP) · Data for 1978

HighestBrunei

94.330

LowestUganda

5.114

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 92 countries · select a heading to sort

Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia94.330
2IraqIRQWestern Asia68.947
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia68.058
4MaltaMLTSouthern Europe63.259
5OmanOMNWestern Asia61.786
6Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia59.898
7GabonGABMiddle Africa57.826
8Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean55.465
9VenezuelaVENSouth America49.583
10ChinaCHNEastern Asia47.631
11ArgentinaARGSouth America46.098
12IranIRNSouthern Asia45.683
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia40.797
14ZambiaZMBEastern Africa39.370
15MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia38.504
16Puerto RicoPRICaribbean38.032
17BotswanaBWASouthern Africa37.417
18South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa37.104
19ChileCHLSouth America35.163
20New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand35.161
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe34.357
22PeruPERSouth America34.027
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe33.627
24SurinameSURSouth America33.277
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia33.129

02In 1978

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brunei94.330
  2. 2Iraq68.947
  3. 3United Arab Emirates68.058
  4. 4Malta63.259
  5. 5Oman61.786

Lowest

  1. 92Uganda5.114
  2. 91Somalia6.924
  3. 90Mali9.813
  4. 89Dominica10.121
  5. 88Antigua and Barbuda10.244

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 25.743. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 91values changed, of 91 in both
  • 43 · 48rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Peru61.844 → 34.027−27.817
  • Iran53.291 → 45.683−7.609
  • Saudi Arabia66.839 → 59.898−6.941
  • Oman66.191 → 61.786−4.406
  • Somalia11.032 → 6.924−4.108
+ Belize

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2026 release

    Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1978.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 92 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1978). Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/industry-value-added/1978

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07Questions

Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Industry share of GDP in Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978?

Brunei, at 94.330, of the 92 countries in the file.

What year does Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978 cover?

92.

Where can I download Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1978 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 2025.

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