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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008

2008, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008 covers 187 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 42.9669; Micronesia is lowest, at 0.3684. The middle country reads 11.0123. Against 2007, 184 values changed (72 up, 112 down), 3 countries joined.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 2008

HighestPuerto Rico

42.9669

LowestMicronesia

0.3684

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), 2008, 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 187 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean42.9669
2EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa34.5003
3ChinaCHNEastern Asia31.6170
4ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia30.5547
5IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia27.8143
6BelarusBLREastern Europe26.1844
7South KoreaKOREastern Asia26.0794
8SurinameSURSouth America25.3145
9MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia24.5607
10PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia23.2687
11RomaniaROUEastern Europe21.9455
12CzechiaCZEEastern Europe21.9249
13JapanJPNEastern Asia21.2914
14LesothoLSOSouthern Africa21.2285
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.7904
16SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia20.5857
17Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa20.3675
18ParaguayPRYSouth America20.3353
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe19.7585
20CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia19.6900
21SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe19.6435
22JordanJORWestern Asia19.5861
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe19.1934
24SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe19.0078
25GuatemalaGTMCentral America18.7671

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico42.9669
  2. 2Eswatini34.5003
  3. 3China31.6170
  4. 4Thailand30.5547
  5. 5Indonesia27.8143

Lowest

  1. 187Micronesia0.3684
  2. 186Cayman Islands0.8288
  3. 185Brunei0.9025
  4. 184Palau0.9149
  5. 183Tuvalu1.0086

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 11.0123. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 184 in both
  • 72 · 112rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ South Sudan+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Kosovo

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 2008.

  • 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 187 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 (2008). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/2008

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008?

Puerto Rico, at 42.9669, of the 187 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008 cover?

187.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2008?

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), 2008 the newest?

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

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