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Data for 1997

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997

1997, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997 covers 156 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 40.0566; Iraq is lowest, at 0.6522. The middle country reads 13.7004. Against 1996, 153 values changed (78 up, 75 down), 3 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1997

HighestPuerto Rico

40.0566

LowestIraq

0.6522

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), 1997, 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 156 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean40.0566
2EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa33.0242
3BelarusBLREastern Europe30.3994
4MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia28.3802
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia26.7929
6ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia26.4682
7South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.1340
8UkraineUKREastern Europe24.6291
9TürkiyeTURWestern Asia24.4134
10RomaniaROUEastern Europe23.9427
11JapanJPNEastern Asia23.2961
12TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia23.2169
13CzechiaCZEEastern Europe23.0670
14MexicoMEXCentral America22.3627
15SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia22.1515
16SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe22.1030
17SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe21.8167
18IrelandIRLNorthern Europe21.7901
19Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean21.7391
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe21.6668
21SamoaWSMPolynesia21.4633
22MauritiusMUSEastern Africa20.5053
23EcuadorECUSouth America20.4204
24TajikistanTJKCentral Asia20.1749
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa19.9135

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico40.0566
  2. 2Eswatini33.0242
  3. 3Belarus30.3994
  4. 4Malaysia28.3802
  5. 5Indonesia26.7929

Lowest

  1. 156Iraq0.6522
  2. 155Brunei0.9925
  3. 154Micronesia1.3864
  4. 153Marshall Islands1.5251
  5. 152Antigua and Barbuda1.6057

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.7004. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 153values changed, of 153 in both
  • 78 · 75rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Canada+ Marshall Islands+ United States

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 1997.

  • 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 156 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 (1997). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1997

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997?

Puerto Rico, at 40.0566, of the 156 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997 cover?

156.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1997?

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), 1997 the newest?

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

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