Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) 1997

Report year 1997·Data year 1997

Manufacturing value added (% of GDP)·Neither end is better — this is a shape, not a score·Published by World Bank Group

49 reference years (1977–2025), covering 81 to 196 countries, pulled from the World Bank’s indicator API (NV.IND.MANF.ZS). How much of a country’s output comes from making things. ⚠ A STRUCTURAL SHARE, NOT A SCORE, and the one on this site where reading the table as a ranking misleads hardest: the world’s richest economies are service economies and sit LOW here, while manufacturing-led middle-income countries sit at the top. It describes the shape of an economy, not its success, and it is out of the Country Index for that reason. ⚠ NEITHER END IS BETTER, so this indicator carries no good/bad colouring anywhere on the site and does not feed its topics’ rankings — it is charted on them, not scored by them. ⚠ 41 country-years the Bank records as exactly 0 are treated as missing and not imported — Venezuela has a 21-year run and Brazil a 19-year one, which are gaps written as a number rather than countries that stopped manufacturing. ⚠ These are not 49 published reports — see `restatedByReport`. ⚠ No rank is published. A POSITION is derived here (2026-09-10) by ordering the score LARGEST FIRST, and it is a SIZE ORDER rather than a league table: this measure has no better end, so position 1 names the country with the biggest figure and says nothing about how that country is doing. The change arrows stay grey for the same reason, and the indicator is still left out of the Country Index.

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