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

Africa: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 11.97 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
11.97 %
Change on year
down 1.4%
Rank
20th
of 29 groups
All-time high
16.5 %
in 1983
All-time low
10.11 %
in 2012
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

051015197019962023

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

Analysis

In 2023, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Africa stood at 11.97 %.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 1.4% on the previous year and up 16.0% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Africa peaked at 16.5 % in 1983 and was at its lowest, 10.11 %, in 2012.

Africa ranks 20th of 29 groups on this measure, 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 Africa, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Africa, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 15.18 %
1971 14.68 % -3.3%
1972 14.69 % +0.1%
1973 15.15 % +3.1%
1974 13.84 % -8.6%
1975 16.05 % +16.0%
1976 16.34 % +1.8%
1977 15.21 % -6.9%
1978 15.48 % +1.8%
1979 15.59 % +0.7%
1980 15.44 % -1.0%
1981 16.39 % +6.2%
1982 16.17 % -1.3%
1983 16.5 % +2.0%
1984 15.17 % -8.0%
1985 16.22 % +6.9%
1986 15.99 % -1.4%
1987 15.36 % -3.9%
1988 16.1 % +4.8%
1989 15.51 % -3.7%
1990 15.47 % -0.2%
1991 15.76 % +1.8%
1992 15.55 % -1.3%
1993 15.56 % +0.0%
1994 15.7 % +0.9%
1995 16.04 % +2.2%
1996 15.69 % -2.2%
1997 15.69 % -0.0%
1998 15.17 % -3.3%
1999 14.62 % -3.6%
2000 13.9 % -4.9%
2001 13.8 % -0.7%
2002 13.5 % -2.2%
2003 13.61 % +0.9%
2004 13.34 % -2.0%
2005 12.43 % -6.8%
2006 11.6 % -6.7%
2007 11.31 % -2.5%
2008 10.78 % -4.7%
2009 11.28 % +4.6%
2010 10.59 % -6.1%
2011 10.35 % -2.3%
2012 10.11 % -2.4%
2013 10.32 % +2.1%
2014 10.5 % +1.7%
2015 10.71 % +2.0%
2016 10.64 % -0.7%
2017 10.32 % -3.0%
2018 10.73 % +3.9%
2019 11.2 % +4.4%
2020 11.77 % +5.0%
2021 12.04 % +2.3%
2022 12.14 % +0.8%
2023 11.97 % -1.4%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 15.22 % 13.84 % 16.34 % 10
1980s 15.88 % 15.17 % 16.5 % 10
1990s 15.53 % 14.62 % 16.04 % 10
2000s 12.55 % 10.78 % 13.9 % 10
2010s 10.55 % 10.11 % 11.2 % 10
2020s 11.98 % 11.77 % 12.14 % 4

Countries ranked near Africa

  1. 17 Equatorial Guinea 23.37 % compare
  2. 18 Malaysia 23.05 % compare
  3. 19 Belarus 23.01 % compare
  4. 19 Timor-Leste 1.65 % compare
  5. 20 Bangladesh 22.34 % compare
  6. 21 Slovakia 20.74 % compare
  7. 22 Mexico 20.38 % compare
  8. 23 Japan 20.05 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Africa?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Africa was 11.97 % 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 Africa?
The highest recorded value was 16.5 % in 1983.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Africa?
The lowest recorded value was 10.11 % in 2012.
How does Africa rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Africa ranks 20th out of 29 groups with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Africa?
Over the last ten years it is up 16.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Africa 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).