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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986

1986, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986 covers 95 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 38.842; Brunei is lowest, at 0.485. The middle country reads 13.690. Against 1985, 93 values changed (53 up, 40 down), 2 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1986

HighestPuerto Rico

38.842

LowestBrunei

0.485

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), 1986, 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 95 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean38.842
2BrazilBRASouth America30.698
3UruguayURYSouth America29.715
4TajikistanTJKCentral Asia27.656
5ArgentinaARGSouth America27.420
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.546
7MaltaMLTSouthern Europe24.087
8ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia23.876
9ZambiaZMBEastern Africa22.651
10SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia22.614
11ColombiaCOLSouth America22.477
12South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.355
13TürkiyeTURWestern Asia22.201
14New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand21.414
15Costa RicaCRICentral America21.321
16NigeriaNGAWestern Africa21.010
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.781
18FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.764
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.675
20EcuadorECUSouth America20.523
21MexicoMEXCentral America20.277
22MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia19.681
23ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa19.485
24MauritiusMUSEastern Africa19.183
25VenezuelaVENSouth America19.004

02In 1986

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico38.842
  2. 2Brazil30.698
  3. 3Uruguay29.715
  4. 4Tajikistan27.656
  5. 5Argentina27.420

Lowest

  1. 95Brunei0.485
  2. 94Antigua and Barbuda2.810
  3. 93Grenada3.619
  4. 92Vanuatu3.979
  5. 91Ethiopia4.290

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.690. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 93values changed, of 93 in both
  • 53 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cabo Verde+ Guinea-Bissau

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 1986.

  • 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 95 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 (1986). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1986

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986?

Puerto Rico, at 38.842, of the 95 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986 describe?

1986.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986 cover?

95.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1986?

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), 1986 the newest?

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

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