Germany vs Japan: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value US$, 2015 prices

Germany
752,844 million USD
in 2023
Japan
995,262 million USD
in 2023
Germany rank
3rd
Japan rank
2nd

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value US$, 2015 prices over time

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How they compare

Japan currently reports 995,262 million USD against 752,844 million USD in Germany, a difference of 242,418 million USD.

That makes Japan's figure about 1.3 times Germany's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 54 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Germany ahead.

Germany ranks 3rd and Japan ranks 2nd of 200 countries.

Across the 6 decades both report, Germany averaged higher in 1 and Japan in 5.

Head to head by decade

Decade Germany Japan Difference Ahead
1970s 392,139 million USD 359,975 million USD 32,164 million USD Germany
1980s 443,736 million USD 537,500 million USD 93,764 million USD Japan
1990s 496,684 million USD 738,660 million USD 241,976 million USD Japan
2000s 567,634 million USD 813,559 million USD 245,924 million USD Japan
2010s 688,706 million USD 905,922 million USD 217,215 million USD Japan
2020s 730,656 million USD 971,942 million USD 241,285 million USD Japan

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher value added (total manufacturing) — value us$, 2015 prices, Germany or Japan?
Japan, at 995,262 million USD against 752,844 million USD in Germany as of 2023.
What is the difference in value added (total manufacturing) — value us$, 2015 prices between Germany and Japan?
242,418 million USD, with Japan ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Germany and Japan?
54 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2023.
How do Germany and Japan rank globally for value added (total manufacturing) — value us$, 2015 prices?
Germany ranks 3rd and Japan ranks 2nd of 200 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value US$, 2015 prices. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator
Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Value US$, 2015 prices
Unit
million USD
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
252 places, 12,511 data points, 1970–2023
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The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).