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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981

1981, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 covers 89 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 36.31; Brunei is lowest, at 0.23. The middle country reads 13.31. Against 1980, 87 values changed (43 up, 44 down), 2 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1981

HighestPuerto Rico

36.31

LowestBrunei

0.23

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), 1981, 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 89 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean36.31
2BrazilBRASouth America34.35
3ArgentinaARGSouth America28.77
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand26.04
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia25.76
6MaltaMLTSouthern Europe25.46
7South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa24.86
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe23.39
9ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia22.64
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia21.77
11ChileCHLSouth America21.62
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe21.44
13ColombiaCOLSouth America21.31
14MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia21.30
15ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa20.38
16NigeriaNGAWestern Africa20.26
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe19.69
18TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.44
19MoroccoMARNorthern Africa19.14
20Costa RicaCRICentral America18.94
21EcuadorECUSouth America18.49
22MexicoMEXCentral America17.91
23FranceFRAWestern Europe17.89
24EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa17.79
25ZambiaZMBEastern Africa17.74

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico36.31
  2. 2Brazil34.35
  3. 3Argentina28.77
  4. 4New Zealand26.04
  5. 5Singapore25.76

Lowest

  1. 89Brunei0.23
  2. 88Uganda1.87
  3. 87Grenada2.31
  4. 86Vanuatu3.67
  5. 85Antigua and Barbuda3.75

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.31. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 87values changed, of 87 in both
  • 43 · 44rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Ethiopia+ Nigeria

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 1981.

  • 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 89 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 (1981). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1981

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981?

Puerto Rico, at 36.31, of the 89 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981 cover?

89.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1981?

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), 1981 the newest?

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

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