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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018

2018, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018 covers 194 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 47.4373; Turks and Caicos Islands is lowest, at 0.4613. The middle country reads 11.0105. Against 2017, 194 values changed (88 up, 106 down), 2 left.

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Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) · Data for 2018

HighestPuerto Rico

47.4373

LowestTurks and Caicos Islands

0.4613

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), 2018, 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 194 countries · select a heading to sort

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean47.4373
2LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe36.5385
3IrelandIRLNorthern Europe32.7800
4San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe32.1887
5EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa28.1918
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia27.7672
7ChinaCHNEastern Asia27.3434
8ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia26.7128
9Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa25.5701
10MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia24.9119
11CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia23.5664
12VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia23.3672
13CzechiaCZEEastern Europe22.3060
14MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia21.5281
15SurinameSURSouth America21.3233
16BelarusBLREastern Europe21.2579
17BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia20.8023
18SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia20.6144
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe20.4062
20JapanJPNEastern Asia20.3304
21MexicoMEXCentral America20.1894
22IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia19.8632
23GermanyDEUWestern Europe19.8054
24PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia19.0982
25RomaniaROUEastern Europe19.0699

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico47.4373
  2. 2Liechtenstein36.5385
  3. 3Ireland32.7800
  4. 4San Marino32.1887
  5. 5Eswatini28.1918

Lowest

  1. 194Turks and Caicos Islands0.4613
  2. 193Bermuda0.4873
  3. 192Micronesia0.4899
  4. 191Macau0.5407
  5. 190Channel Islands0.7969

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 11.0105. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −2countries joined / left
  • 194values changed, of 194 in both
  • 88 · 106rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

− Libya− New Caledonia

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 2018.

  • 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 194 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 (2018). Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/manufacturing-value-added/2018

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07Questions

Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Manufacturing share of GDP in Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018?

Puerto Rico, at 47.4373, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018 cover?

194.

Where can I download Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP), 2018?

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), 2018 the newest?

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

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