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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990

1990, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990 covers 113 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 39.622; Brunei is lowest, at 0.414. The middle country reads 14.157. Against 1989, 101 values changed (49 up, 52 down), 12 countries joined, 1 left.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1990

HighestPuerto Rico

39.622

LowestBrunei

0.414

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), 1990, 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 113 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean39.622
2BelarusBLREastern Europe38.106
3ZambiaZMBEastern Africa31.857
4EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa31.422
5North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe30.014
6UruguayURYSouth America27.965
7ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia27.204
8ArgentinaARGSouth America26.790
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia26.409
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.239
11TajikistanTJKCentral Asia24.829
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia24.404
13MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia24.225
14South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa23.744
15BrazilBRASouth America22.828
16EcuadorECUSouth America22.331
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia21.958
18MaltaMLTSouthern Europe21.884
19ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa20.485
20MauritiusMUSEastern Africa20.372
21MongoliaMNGEastern Asia20.369
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe20.233
23ItalyITASouthern Europe20.222
24IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia19.893
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.509

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico39.622
  2. 2Belarus38.106
  3. 3Zambia31.857
  4. 4Eswatini31.422
  5. 5North Macedonia30.014

Lowest

  1. 113Brunei0.414
  2. 112Antigua and Barbuda2.497
  3. 111Tuvalu2.847
  4. 110Guinea3.244
  5. 109Iraq3.681

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 14.157. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −1countries joined / left
  • 101values changed, of 101 in both
  • 49 · 52rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Azerbaijan+ Belarus+ Switzerland+ Côte d’Ivoire+ United Kingdom+ Italy+ Kyrgyzstan+ North Macedonia+ New Caledonia+ Tuvalu+ Tanzania− 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 1990.

  • 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 113 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 (1990). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1990

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990?

Puerto Rico, at 39.622, of the 113 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990 cover?

113.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1990?

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), 1990 the newest?

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

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