Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 7.61 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
7.61 %
Change on year
down 25.4%
World rank
138th
of 203 countries
All-time high
21.73 %
in 1985
All-time low
3.98 %
in 2016
Years of data
54
1970–2023

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Afghanistan, 1970–2023

5101520197019962023

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in %.

Analysis

In 2023, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Afghanistan stood at 7.61 %.

That represents a change of down 25.4% on the previous year and up 54.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Afghanistan peaked at 21.73 % in 1985 and was at its lowest, 3.98 %, in 2016.

That places Afghanistan 138th out of 203 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 54 years of available data.

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Afghanistan, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Afghanistan, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 21.38 %
1971 21.38 % +0.0%
1972 21.38 % -0.0%
1973 21.38 % +0.0%
1974 21.38 % -0.0%
1975 21.38 % -0.0%
1976 21.38 % +0.0%
1977 21.38 % -0.0%
1978 21.37 % -0.0%
1979 21.39 % +0.1%
1980 21.37 % -0.1%
1981 21.36 % -0.1%
1982 21.45 % +0.4%
1983 21.3 % -0.7%
1984 21.31 % +0.0%
1985 21.73 % +2.0%
1986 20.87 % -4.0%
1987 21.33 % +2.2%
1988 16.8 % -21.2%
1989 15.29 % -9.0%
1990 20.23 % +32.3%
1991 19.92 % -1.5%
1992 11.89 % -40.3%
1993 10.28 % -13.6%
1994 8.06 % -21.6%
1995 5.34 % -33.8%
1996 6.71 % +25.8%
1997 8.46 % +26.0%
1998 10.66 % +25.9%
1999 13.4 % +25.8%
2000 16.85 % +25.7%
2001 19.3 % +14.6%
2002 16.93 % -12.3%
2003 14.47 % -14.5%
2004 14.18 % -2.0%
2005 12.55 % -11.5%
2006 11.36 % -9.4%
2007 11.55 % +1.6%
2008 10.97 % -5.0%
2009 7.64 % -30.4%
2010 6.8 % -10.9%
2011 6.79 % -0.2%
2012 5.82 % -14.3%
2013 4.92 % -15.5%
2014 4.65 % -5.5%
2015 4.33 % -6.9%
2016 3.98 % -8.1%
2017 4.13 % +3.8%
2018 6.37 % +54.3%
2019 10.06 % +57.9%
2020 7.53 % -25.2%
2021 8.49 % +12.8%
2022 10.19 % +20.0%
2023 7.61 % -25.4%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 21.38 % 21.37 % 21.39 % 10
1980s 20.28 % 15.29 % 21.73 % 10
1990s 11.5 % 5.34 % 20.23 % 10
2000s 13.58 % 7.64 % 19.3 % 10
2010s 5.79 % 3.98 % 10.06 % 10
2020s 8.45 % 7.53 % 10.19 % 4

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Afghanistan?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Afghanistan was 7.61 % in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Afghanistan?
The highest recorded value was 21.73 % in 1985.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Afghanistan?
The lowest recorded value was 3.98 % in 2016.
How does Afghanistan rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Afghanistan ranks 138th out of 203 countries with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Afghanistan?
Over the last ten years it is up 54.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Afghanistan data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$
Unit
%
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).