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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978

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

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 covers 83 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 34.968; Brunei is lowest, at 0.296. The middle country reads 13.501. Against 1977, 81 values changed (34 up, 47 down), 2 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1978

HighestPuerto Rico

34.968

LowestBrunei

0.296

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), 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 83 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean34.968
2ArgentinaARGSouth America34.128
3MaltaMLTSouthern Europe27.847
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand25.195
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia23.336
6ColombiaCOLSouth America23.239
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe23.033
8AustriaAUTWestern Europe22.720
9ChileCHLSouth America21.873
10South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa21.410
11MexicoMEXCentral America21.310
12South KoreaKOREastern Asia21.030
13EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa20.932
14PeruPERSouth America20.232
15MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia20.179
16ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia20.012
17EcuadorECUSouth America19.687
18ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa19.383
19FranceFRAWestern Europe19.261
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa19.110
21Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia18.971
22Costa RicaCRICentral America18.738
23Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean18.454
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia18.282
25El SalvadorSLVCentral America18.108

02In 1978

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico34.968
  2. 2Argentina34.128
  3. 3Malta27.847
  4. 4New Zealand25.195
  5. 5Singapore23.336

Lowest

  1. 83Brunei0.296
  2. 82Grenada1.940
  3. 81United Arab Emirates3.432
  4. 80Somalia3.682
  5. 79Antigua and Barbuda3.748

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.501. “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.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 81values changed, of 81 in both
  • 34 · 47rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Belize+ Republic of the Congo

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.

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 1978.

  • 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 83 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. Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.

Cite this edition

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

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978: questions and answers

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

Puerto Rico, at 34.968, of the 83 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 cover?

83.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% 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 Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1978 the newest?

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

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