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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983

1983, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983 covers 93 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 37.080; Brunei is lowest, at 0.303. The middle country reads 12.278. Against 1982, 89 values changed (49 up, 40 down), 4 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1983

HighestPuerto Rico

37.080

LowestBrunei

0.303

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), 1983, 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 93 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean37.080
2BrazilBRASouth America32.682
3ArgentinaARGSouth America30.669
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand25.883
5UruguayURYSouth America25.356
6MaltaMLTSouthern Europe24.017
7South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa23.879
8South KoreaKOREastern Asia22.968
9FinlandFINNorthern Europe22.289
10ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia22.132
11Costa RicaCRICentral America21.856
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia21.464
13NigeriaNGAWestern Africa21.098
14ColombiaCOLSouth America20.981
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.728
16ChileCHLSouth America20.598
17ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa20.323
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.059
19MoroccoMARNorthern Africa19.971
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa19.846
21MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia19.527
22EcuadorECUSouth America19.280
23TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.104
24VenezuelaVENSouth America17.883
25MexicoMEXCentral America17.456

02In 1983

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico37.080
  2. 2Brazil32.682
  3. 3Argentina30.669
  4. 4New Zealand25.883
  5. 5Uruguay25.356

Lowest

  1. 93Brunei0.303
  2. 92Micronesia0.476
  3. 91Grenada3.007
  4. 90Vanuatu3.180
  5. 89Antigua and Barbuda3.674

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.278. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031982 → 1983

Since 1982

What changed between 1982 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 89values changed, of 89 in both
  • 49 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Micronesia+ Indonesia+ Chad+ Uruguay

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 1983.

  • 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 93 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 (1983). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983 [data set], describing 1983. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1983

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983?

Puerto Rico, at 37.080, of the 93 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983 describe?

1983.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983 cover?

93.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1983?

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), 1983 the newest?

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

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