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Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979

1979, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979 covers 94 countries. Brunei is highest, at 96.123; Uganda is lowest, at 4.135. The middle country reads 26.964. Against 1978, 91 values changed (62 up, 29 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP) · Data for 1979

HighestBrunei

96.123

LowestUganda

4.135

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), 1979, 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 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia96.123
2IraqIRQWestern Asia75.311
3United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia71.356
4Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia64.545
5OmanOMNWestern Asia64.219
6MaltaMLTSouthern Europe63.638
7GabonGABMiddle Africa61.759
8Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean57.635
9VenezuelaVENSouth America51.890
10ChinaCHNEastern Asia46.877
11BrazilBRASouth America46.131
12IranIRNSouthern Asia45.753
13ArgentinaARGSouth America44.028
14BotswanaBWASouthern Africa42.727
15ZambiaZMBEastern Africa41.990
16PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia41.404
17MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia39.831
18South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa39.753
19Puerto RicoPRICaribbean37.661
20ChileCHLSouth America36.552
21Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa36.392
22PeruPERSouth America35.834
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa34.729
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand34.635
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe34.309

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brunei96.123
  2. 2Iraq75.311
  3. 3United Arab Emirates71.356
  4. 4Saudi Arabia64.545
  5. 5Oman64.219

Lowest

  1. 94Uganda4.135
  2. 93Vanuatu6.049
  3. 92Mali8.830
  4. 91Somalia8.837
  5. 90Dominica10.168

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 26.964. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −1countries joined / left
  • 91values changed, of 91 in both
  • 62 · 29rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Brazil+ Kiribati+ Vanuatu− Sudan

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 1979.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 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 (1979). Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/industry-value-added/1979

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07Questions

Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Industry share of GDP in Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979?

Brunei, at 96.123, of the 94 countries in the file.

What year does Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979 cover?

94.

Where can I download Industry Value Added including Construction (% of GDP), 1979?

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), 1979 the newest?

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

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