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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998

1998, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 covers 158 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 42.5140; Iraq is lowest, at 0.8612. The middle country reads 13.2342. Against 1997, 156 values changed (67 up, 89 down), 2 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1998

HighestPuerto Rico

42.5140

LowestIraq

0.8612

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), 1998, 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 158 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean42.5140
2EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa32.9107
3BelarusBLREastern Europe29.4770
4MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia28.7827
5ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia27.1479
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.7724
7UkraineUKREastern Europe25.2571
8IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia24.9957
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe23.2445
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe22.9185
11CzechiaCZEEastern Europe22.7034
12JapanJPNEastern Asia22.6972
13SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia22.6875
14TürkiyeTURWestern Asia22.2590
15MexicoMEXCentral America22.2247
16SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe22.1849
17SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe22.1093
18Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean21.6480
19RomaniaROUEastern Europe21.3918
20MauritiusMUSEastern Africa20.7543
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe20.0870
22HungaryHUNEastern Europe19.9464
23EcuadorECUSouth America19.9260
24SwedenSWENorthern Europe19.6051
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa19.3278

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico42.5140
  2. 2Eswatini32.9107
  3. 3Belarus29.4770
  4. 4Malaysia28.7827
  5. 5Thailand27.1479

Lowest

  1. 158Iraq0.8612
  2. 157Micronesia1.4830
  3. 156Brunei1.4941
  4. 155Antigua and Barbuda1.6244
  5. 154Bahamas1.9961

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.2342. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 156values changed, of 156 in both
  • 67 · 89rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Laos15.5997 → 8.6926−6.9071
  • Turkmenistan23.2169 → 17.3276−5.8893
  • Moldova17.9709 → 13.7063−4.2646
  • Latvia18.7341 → 15.2021−3.5320
  • Samoa21.4633 → 17.9534−3.5099
+ Faroe Islands+ Oman

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 1998.

  • 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 158 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 (1998). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1998

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998?

Puerto Rico, at 42.5140, of the 158 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998 cover?

158.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1998?

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), 1998 the newest?

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

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