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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977

1977, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977 covers 81 countries. Peru is highest, at 37.208; Brunei is lowest, at 0.327. The middle country reads 13.616.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1977

HighestPeru

37.208

LowestBrunei

0.327

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977, 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 81 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1PeruPERSouth America37.208
2ArgentinaARGSouth America36.595
3Puerto RicoPRICaribbean33.284
4MaltaMLTSouthern Europe27.718
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand24.925
6ColombiaCOLSouth America23.841
7SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia22.597
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe22.348
9AustriaAUTWestern Europe22.347
10Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia22.037
11South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa21.567
12MexicoMEXCentral America21.497
13ChileCHLSouth America21.276
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia20.933
15EcuadorECUSouth America20.725
16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia20.427
17EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa20.424
18ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia20.173
19FranceFRAWestern Europe19.501
20Costa RicaCRICentral America18.990
21Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean18.979
22PanamaPANCentral America18.772
23ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa18.612
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia17.774
25ZambiaZMBEastern Africa17.771

02In 1977

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Peru37.208
  2. 2Argentina36.595
  3. 3Puerto Rico33.284
  4. 4Malta27.718
  5. 5New Zealand24.925

Lowest

  1. 81Brunei0.327
  2. 80Grenada2.010
  3. 79United Arab Emirates2.744
  4. 78Antigua and Barbuda3.359
  5. 77Dominica3.887

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.616. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

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

The site’s method

  • 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 1977.

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 81 countries has every column.

04The 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1977). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977 [data set], describing 1977. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1977

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06Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977?

Peru, at 37.208, of the 81 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977 describe?

1977.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977 cover?

81.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1977?

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), 1977 the newest?

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

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