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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999

1999, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999 covers 160 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 37.450; Iraq is lowest, at 0.875. The middle country reads 13.071. Against 1998, 158 values changed (58 up, 100 down), 2 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 1999

HighestPuerto Rico

37.450

LowestIraq

0.875

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), 1999, 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 160 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean37.450
2AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa34.479
3EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa32.132
4MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia30.936
5BelarusBLREastern Europe28.196
6ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia28.175
7UkraineUKREastern Europe27.232
8IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia25.995
9South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.791
10IrelandIRLNorthern Europe23.532
11SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia22.851
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe22.832
13CzechiaCZEEastern Europe22.447
14SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe22.203
15JapanJPNEastern Asia22.036
16SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe21.985
17Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean21.673
18EcuadorECUSouth America21.268
19MexicoMEXCentral America21.259
20HondurasHNDCentral America20.274
21SenegalSENWestern Africa20.257
22TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.996
23MauritiusMUSEastern Africa19.881
24GermanyDEUWestern Europe19.744
25TajikistanTJKCentral Asia19.592

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico37.450
  2. 2Algeria34.479
  3. 3Eswatini32.132
  4. 4Malaysia30.936
  5. 5Belarus28.196

Lowest

  1. 160Iraq0.875
  2. 159Micronesia1.413
  3. 158Antigua and Barbuda1.644
  4. 157Brunei1.851
  5. 156Marshall Islands1.906

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 13.071. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 158values changed, of 158 in both
  • 58 · 100rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Algeria+ Senegal

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 1999.

  • 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 160 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 (1999). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/1999

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999?

Puerto Rico, at 37.450, of the 160 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999 cover?

160.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 1999?

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), 1999 the newest?

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

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