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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996

1996, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996 covers 153 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 40.7284; Brunei is lowest, at 0.9016. The middle country reads 13.3692. Against 1995, 151 values changed (49 up, 102 down), 2 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1996

HighestPuerto Rico

40.7284

LowestBrunei

0.9016

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), 1996, 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 153 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean40.7284
2EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa31.8755
3BelarusBLREastern Europe29.5581
4MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia27.8428
5UkraineUKREastern Europe27.4550
6ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia25.6660
7IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia25.6166
8RomaniaROUEastern Europe25.5609
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.2214
10TürkiyeTURWestern Asia24.4069
11TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia24.2026
12SamoaWSMPolynesia23.9374
13JapanJPNEastern Asia23.4554
14SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia23.1672
15Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean22.7048
16SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe22.6720
17MexicoMEXCentral America22.2130
18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe22.2110
19EcuadorECUSouth America21.9243
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe21.6102
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe21.4156
22MoldovaMDAEastern Europe20.6041
23MauritiusMUSEastern Africa20.5235
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe20.4395
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa20.2673

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico40.7284
  2. 2Eswatini31.8755
  3. 3Belarus29.5581
  4. 4Malaysia27.8428
  5. 5Ukraine27.4550

Lowest

  1. 153Brunei0.9016
  2. 152Iraq1.0050
  3. 151Micronesia1.1297
  4. 150Antigua and Barbuda1.5968
  5. 149Aruba2.5101

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.3692. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 151values changed, of 151 in both
  • 49 · 102rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Cuba11.4475 → 17.6521+6.2046
  • Sudan4.6276 → 8.8652+4.2376
  • Kenya8.3634 → 11.8595+3.4960
  • Zambia9.1776 → 10.9156+1.7380
  • Romania23.8707 → 25.5609+1.6903

Fell most

+ DR Congo+ Georgia

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 1996.

  • 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 153 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 (1996). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1996

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996?

Puerto Rico, at 40.7284, of the 153 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996 cover?

153.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1996?

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), 1996 the newest?

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

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