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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987

1987, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987 covers 96 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 39.4705; Brunei is lowest, at 0.3662. The middle country reads 12.7773. Against 1986, 95 values changed (48 up, 47 down), 1 country joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1987

HighestPuerto Rico

39.4705

LowestBrunei

0.3662

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), 1987, 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 96 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean39.4705
2TajikistanTJKCentral Asia30.0000
3BrazilBRASouth America29.8925
4UruguayURYSouth America28.9462
5ArgentinaARGSouth America27.4966
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia26.8006
7ZambiaZMBEastern Africa25.7234
8EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa25.1240
9ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia24.2548
10SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia24.0901
11South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa22.7754
12MaltaMLTSouthern Europe22.7428
13TürkiyeTURWestern Asia21.8391
14Costa RicaCRICentral America21.3326
15EcuadorECUSouth America21.2206
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe21.1496
17MexicoMEXCentral America20.9195
18ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa20.6678
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe20.5836
20ColombiaCOLSouth America20.3176
21MauritiusMUSEastern Africa20.2704
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.0576
23El SalvadorSLVCentral America19.8374
24MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia19.8039
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa19.6455

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico39.4705
  2. 2Tajikistan30.0000
  3. 3Brazil29.8925
  4. 4Uruguay28.9462
  5. 5Argentina27.4966

Lowest

  1. 96Brunei0.3662
  2. 95Antigua and Barbuda2.5957
  3. 94Sierra Leone3.7745
  4. 93Grenada3.8084
  5. 92Tonga4.0973

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 12.7773. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 95values changed, of 95 in both
  • 48 · 47rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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 1987.

  • 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 96 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 (1987). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1987

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987?

Puerto Rico, at 39.4705, of the 96 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987 cover?

96.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1987?

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), 1987 the newest?

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

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