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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980

1980, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 covers 87 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 36.757; Brunei is lowest, at 0.199. The middle country reads 12.876. Against 1979, 83 values changed (40 up, 43 down), 4 countries joined, 2 left.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1980

HighestPuerto Rico

36.757

LowestBrunei

0.199

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), 1980, 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean36.757
2ArgentinaARGSouth America29.476
3MaltaMLTSouthern Europe26.943
4SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia26.526
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand24.857
6FinlandFINNorthern Europe24.201
7ColombiaCOLSouth America23.270
8South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.805
9BrazilBRASouth America21.986
10MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia21.948
11AustriaAUTWestern Europe21.909
12South KoreaKOREastern Asia21.897
13ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia21.511
14ChileCHLSouth America21.033
15ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa20.728
16SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.702
17BelizeBLZCentral America18.726
18Costa RicaCRICentral America18.599
19FranceFRAWestern Europe18.366
20MexicoMEXCentral America18.344
21EcuadorECUSouth America18.340
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa18.002
23MoroccoMARNorthern Africa17.964
24VenezuelaVENSouth America17.671
25CyprusCYPWestern Asia17.546

02In 1980

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico36.757
  2. 2Argentina29.476
  3. 3Malta26.943
  4. 4Singapore26.526
  5. 5New Zealand24.857

Lowest

  1. 87Brunei0.199
  2. 86Grenada2.452
  3. 85Bhutan2.991
  4. 84Qatar3.290
  5. 83United Arab Emirates3.728

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.876. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −2countries joined / left
  • 83values changed, of 83 in both
  • 40 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Namibia+ Qatar+ Sweden− Côte d’Ivoire− Peru

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 1980.

  • 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 87 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 (1980). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1980

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980?

Puerto Rico, at 36.757, of the 87 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980 cover?

87.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1980?

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), 1980 the newest?

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

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