Services, value added in Upper middle income
Upper middle income: Services, value added was 4.7% in 2025. ▲ Rising
Services, value added in Upper middle income, 1979–2025
Source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs). Measured in annual % growth.
Analysis
The most recent figure for services, value added in Upper middle income is 4.7%, measured in 2025.
The figure is up 4.9% on the previous year and down 13.4% over ten years.
Over the whole period, services, value added in Upper middle income peaked at 10.3% in 2007 and was at its lowest, -0.7%, in 2020.
Upper middle income ranks 18th of 43 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 47 years of available data.
Services, value added in Upper middle income, year by year
| Year | annual % growth | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7.2% | — |
| 1980 | 7.3% | +0.5% |
| 1981 | 2.7% | -63.2% |
| 1982 | 2.7% | +1.1% |
| 1983 | 2.6% | -3.4% |
| 1984 | 5.6% | +115.3% |
| 1985 | 4.7% | -16.7% |
| 1986 | 4.5% | -4.6% |
| 1987 | 5.2% | +15.6% |
| 1988 | 4.2% | -19.2% |
| 1989 | 3.6% | -12.7% |
| 1990 | 2.6% | -29.6% |
| 1991 | 3.8% | +47.3% |
| 1992 | 5.8% | +53.8% |
| 1993 | 6.3% | +7.8% |
| 1994 | 4.9% | -21.1% |
| 1995 | 3.8% | -22.9% |
| 1996 | 5.6% | +47.9% |
| 1997 | 6.1% | +8.5% |
| 1998 | 3.5% | -42.8% |
| 1999 | 4.0% | +13.9% |
| 2000 | 6.1% | +51.8% |
| 2001 | 4.6% | -24.2% |
| 2002 | 5.4% | +16.7% |
| 2003 | 5.3% | -0.3% |
| 2004 | 7.9% | +47.5% |
| 2005 | 7.9% | +0.8% |
| 2006 | 9.0% | +13.8% |
| 2007 | 10.3% | +14.2% |
| 2008 | 6.8% | -34.3% |
| 2009 | 4.4% | -34.8% |
| 2010 | 7.5% | +69.7% |
| 2011 | 7.1% | -5.3% |
| 2012 | 6.2% | -13.3% |
| 2013 | 6.0% | -2.4% |
| 2014 | 5.6% | -7.2% |
| 2015 | 5.4% | -3.7% |
| 2016 | 5.1% | -4.2% |
| 2017 | 6.0% | +16.1% |
| 2018 | 5.9% | -1.0% |
| 2019 | 5.3% | -9.7% |
| 2020 | -0.7% | -113.1% |
| 2021 | 7.9% | -1225.9% |
| 2022 | 4.2% | -46.2% |
| 2023 | 5.3% | +25.0% |
| 2024 | 4.4% | -16.3% |
| 2025 | 4.7% | +4.9% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Services, value added in Upper middle income changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | +1225.9% | -0.7% | 7.9% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 7.2% | 7.2% | 7.2% | 1 |
| 1980s | 4.3% | 2.6% | 7.3% | 10 |
| 1990s | 4.6% | 2.6% | 6.3% | 10 |
| 2000s | 6.8% | 4.4% | 10.3% | 10 |
| 2010s | 6.0% | 5.1% | 7.5% | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.3% | -0.7% | 7.9% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Upper middle income
More economy & growth data for Upper middle income
- Foreign direct investment, net outflows (BoP, current US$), gaps 228.01 billion BoP, current US$ (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (constant 2015 US$) 3.62 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross capital formation (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.3372 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Gross capital formation (current US$), per capita 3,522 current US$ per person (2024)
- Gross capital formation (constant 2015 US$), annual growth rate 2.14 % change on previous year (2025)
- Gross capital formation (constant 2015 US$), per unit of GDP 0.3068 constant 2015 US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Gross capital formation (constant 2015 US$), per capita 3,341 constant 2015 US$ per person (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$), annual growth rate 4.7 % change on previous year (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.2376 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Imports of goods and services (current US$), per capita 2,587 current US$ per person (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is services, value added in Upper middle income?
- Services, value added in Upper middle income was 4.7% in 2025, according to Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs).
- What is the highest services, value added recorded in Upper middle income?
- The highest recorded value was 10.3% in 2007.
- What is the lowest services, value added recorded in Upper middle income?
- The lowest recorded value was -0.7% in 2020.
- How does Upper middle income rank for services, value added?
- Upper middle income ranks 18th out of 43 groups with data for 2025.
- Is services, value added rising or falling in Upper middle income?
- Over the last ten years it is down 13.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Upper middle income data come from?
- The figures come from Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), published as part of Services, value added (annual % growth). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Services industries correspond to ISIC (Rev. 4) divisions 45-99 and includes wholesale and retail trade, repair of motor vehicles, hotels and restaurants, transport, storage and communication, financial intermediation, real estate, renting and business activities, public administration and defence, compulsory social security, education, health and social work, other community, social and personal service activities, private households with employed persons, and extra-territorial organizations and bodies. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator denotes the percentage change over each previous year of the constant price (base year 2015) series in United States dollars.