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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982

1982, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982 covers 89 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 36.531; Brunei is lowest, at 0.297. The middle country reads 12.350. Against 1981, 89 values changed (36 up, 53 down), the same countries are covered.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1982

HighestPuerto Rico

36.531

LowestBrunei

0.297

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), 1982, 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), 1982: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean36.531
2BrazilBRASouth America33.894
3ArgentinaARGSouth America31.360
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand26.623
5MaltaMLTSouthern Europe24.786
6South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa24.117
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe22.663
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia22.293
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia21.812
10ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia21.322
11ColombiaCOLSouth America21.220
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.808
13Costa RicaCRICentral America20.335
14NigeriaNGAWestern Africa20.332
15TürkiyeTURWestern Asia20.000
16EcuadorECUSouth America19.722
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe19.660
18MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia19.399
19ChileCHLSouth America19.232
20ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa19.183
21MoroccoMARNorthern Africa18.909
22ZambiaZMBEastern Africa18.599
23Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean17.599
24VenezuelaVENSouth America17.461
25FranceFRAWestern Europe17.301

02In 1982

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico36.531
  2. 2Brazil33.894
  3. 3Argentina31.360
  4. 4New Zealand26.623
  5. 5Malta24.786

Lowest

  1. 89Brunei0.297
  2. 88Mali3.217
  3. 87Grenada3.543
  4. 86Ghana3.606
  5. 85Vanuatu3.856

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.350. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031981 → 1982

Since 1981

What changed between 1981 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 89values changed, of 89 in both
  • 36 · 53rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 1982.

  • 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 (1982). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982 [data set], describing 1982. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1982

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982?

Puerto Rico, at 36.531, of the 89 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982 describe?

1982.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982 cover?

89.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1982?

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), 1982 the newest?

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

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