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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979

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

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979 covers 85 countries. Brazil is highest, at 46.1314; Brunei is lowest, at 0.2627. The middle country reads 13.0518. Against 1978, 82 values changed (36 up, 46 down), 3 countries joined, 1 left.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1979

HighestBrazil

46.1314

LowestBrunei

0.2627

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), 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 85 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1BrazilBRASouth America46.1314
2Puerto RicoPRICaribbean34.8408
3ArgentinaARGSouth America32.6852
4MaltaMLTSouthern Europe28.0947
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia25.2507
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand24.8792
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe24.0139
8South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.4680
9ColombiaCOLSouth America22.4676
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe22.0627
11South KoreaKOREastern Asia21.5364
12MexicoMEXCentral America21.1473
13EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa21.0435
14ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia21.0413
15ChileCHLSouth America20.8173
16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia20.5982
17EcuadorECUSouth America20.5263
18ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa19.6967
19PeruPERSouth America19.6554
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.1606
21FranceFRAWestern Europe18.7596
22Costa RicaCRICentral America18.3074
23ZambiaZMBEastern Africa18.2942
24VenezuelaVENSouth America18.2339
25Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia18.1037

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Brazil46.1314
  2. 2Puerto Rico34.8408
  3. 3Argentina32.6852
  4. 4Malta28.0947
  5. 5Singapore25.2507

Lowest

  1. 85Brunei0.2627
  2. 84Grenada1.8533
  3. 83United Arab Emirates3.0580
  4. 82Gambia3.5028
  5. 81Uganda3.6676

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.0518. “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
  • 82values changed, of 82 in both
  • 36 · 46rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Brazil+ Kiribati+ Vanuatu− Chad

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 1979.

  • 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 85 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 (1979). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1979

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979: questions and answers

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

Brazil, at 46.1314, of the 85 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979 cover?

85.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% 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 Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1979 the newest?

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

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