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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989

1989, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989 covers 102 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 39.174; Brunei is lowest, at 0.422. The middle country reads 13.537. Against 1988, 98 values changed (42 up, 56 down), 4 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1989

HighestPuerto Rico

39.174

LowestBrunei

0.422

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), 1989, 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 102 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean39.174
2UkraineUKREastern Europe38.105
3MongoliaMNGEastern Asia32.702
4ZambiaZMBEastern Africa30.970
5ArgentinaARGSouth America30.949
6EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa30.567
7BrazilBRASouth America29.261
8UruguayURYSouth America26.827
9ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia26.748
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia26.747
11SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia25.301
12MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia23.802
13South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa23.486
14TürkiyeTURWestern Asia23.122
15TajikistanTJKCentral Asia23.043
16ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa22.971
17MaltaMLTSouthern Europe22.358
18EcuadorECUSouth America21.379
19ColombiaCOLSouth America20.887
20El SalvadorSLVCentral America20.843
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.459
22Costa RicaCRICentral America20.353
23MexicoMEXCentral America20.226
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.050
25MauritiusMUSEastern Africa19.714

02In 1989

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico39.174
  2. 2Ukraine38.105
  3. 3Mongolia32.702
  4. 4Zambia30.970
  5. 5Argentina30.949

Lowest

  1. 102Brunei0.422
  2. 101Antigua and Barbuda2.316
  3. 100Guinea3.050
  4. 99Laos3.819
  5. 98Somalia4.016

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.537. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 98values changed, of 98 in both
  • 42 · 56rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahamas+ Laos+ Mongolia+ Ukraine

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 1989.

  • 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 102 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 (1989). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1989

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989?

Puerto Rico, at 39.174, of the 102 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989 describe?

1989.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989 cover?

102.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1989?

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), 1989 the newest?

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

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