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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988

1988, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988 covers 98 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 39.700; Brunei is lowest, at 0.406. The middle country reads 13.506. Against 1987, 96 values changed (52 up, 44 down), 2 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1988

HighestPuerto Rico

39.700

LowestBrunei

0.406

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988, 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 98 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean39.700
2ZambiaZMBEastern Africa30.807
3BrazilBRASouth America29.977
4EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa29.378
5ArgentinaARGSouth America28.000
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia27.721
7UruguayURYSouth America27.263
8TajikistanTJKCentral Asia26.599
9SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia26.078
10ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia25.839
11South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa23.055
12TürkiyeTURWestern Asia22.956
13MaltaMLTSouthern Europe22.124
14MexicoMEXCentral America22.102
15MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia21.822
16EcuadorECUSouth America21.498
17Costa RicaCRICentral America21.272
18ColombiaCOLSouth America21.158
19NigeriaNGAWestern Africa21.020
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.711
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.290
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.154
23MauritiusMUSEastern Africa20.114
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America19.862
25ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa19.467

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico39.700
  2. 2Zambia30.807
  3. 3Brazil29.977
  4. 4Eswatini29.378
  5. 5Argentina28.000

Lowest

  1. 98Brunei0.406
  2. 97Antigua and Barbuda2.298
  3. 96Sierra Leone2.825
  4. 95Guinea3.077
  5. 94Grenada4.081

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.506. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 96values changed, of 96 in both
  • 52 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Guinea+ Haiti

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 1988.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 98 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 (1988). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1988

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988?

Puerto Rico, at 39.700, of the 98 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988 cover?

98.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988?

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

Is Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1988 the newest?

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

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