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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985

1985, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985 covers 93 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 38.983; Brunei is lowest, at 0.282. The middle country reads 13.271. Against 1984, 91 values changed (38 up, 53 down), 2 countries joined, 1 left.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1985

HighestPuerto Rico

38.983

LowestBrunei

0.282

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), 1985, 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), 1985: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean38.983
2BrazilBRASouth America32.385
3TajikistanTJKCentral Asia31.323
4ArgentinaARGSouth America29.642
5UruguayURYSouth America29.398
6MaltaMLTSouthern Europe24.413
7South KoreaKOREastern Asia24.325
8New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand23.128
9ZambiaZMBEastern Africa22.858
10South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.161
11Costa RicaCRICentral America22.087
12ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia21.921
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe21.717
14ChileCHLSouth America21.682
15EcuadorECUSouth America21.616
16ColombiaCOLSouth America21.387
17NigeriaNGAWestern Africa21.055
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe21.052
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.684
20MoroccoMARNorthern Africa20.119
21SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia20.115
22MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia19.671
23PanamaPANCentral America19.400
24MexicoMEXCentral America19.145
25TürkiyeTURWestern Asia18.255

02In 1985

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico38.983
  2. 2Brazil32.385
  3. 3Tajikistan31.323
  4. 4Argentina29.642
  5. 5Uruguay29.398

Lowest

  1. 93Brunei0.282
  2. 92Antigua and Barbuda3.192
  3. 91Grenada3.849
  4. 90Vanuatu3.941
  5. 89Ethiopia3.961

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.271. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

What changed between 1984 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −1countries joined / left
  • 91values changed, of 91 in both
  • 38 · 53rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Mauritania+ Tajikistan− Sierra Leone

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 1985.

  • 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 (1985). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1985

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985?

Puerto Rico, at 38.983, of the 93 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985 describe?

1985.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985 cover?

93.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1985?

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), 1985 the newest?

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

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