Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 21.63 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
21.63 %
Change on year
up 3.1%
World rank
4th
of 20 countries
All-time high
31.78 %
in 1990
All-time low
17.35 %
in 2020
Years of data
54
1970–2023

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1970–2023

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

Analysis

The most recent figure for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea is 21.63 %, measured in 2023.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 3.1% on the previous year and down 2.3% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea peaked at 31.78 % in 1990 and was at its lowest, 17.35 %, in 2020.

That places Democratic People's Republic of Korea 4th out of 20 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top quarter.

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

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 26.73 %
1971 26.73 % +0.0%
1972 26.73 % +0.0%
1973 26.73 % +0.0%
1974 26.73 % +0.0%
1975 26.73 % +0.0%
1976 26.73 % +0.0%
1977 26.73 % +0.0%
1978 26.73 % +0.0%
1979 26.73 % +0.0%
1980 26.73 % +0.0%
1981 26.73 % +0.0%
1982 26.73 % +0.0%
1983 26.73 % +0.0%
1984 26.73 % +0.0%
1985 26.73 % +0.0%
1986 26.73 % +0.0%
1987 26.73 % +0.0%
1988 26.73 % +0.0%
1989 26.73 % +0.0%
1990 31.78 % +18.9%
1991 28.95 % -8.9%
1992 24.59 % -15.1%
1993 24.7 % +0.5%
1994 23.62 % -4.4%
1995 22.51 % -4.7%
1996 20.95 % -6.9%
1997 18.83 % -10.1%
1998 19.02 % +1.0%
1999 18.28 % -3.9%
2000 17.7 % -3.1%
2001 18.05 % +2.0%
2002 17.98 % -0.4%
2003 18.47 % +2.7%
2004 18.51 % +0.2%
2005 19 % +2.7%
2006 19.47 % +2.4%
2007 19.99 % +2.7%
2008 22.55 % +12.8%
2009 22.12 % -1.9%
2010 21.91 % -0.9%
2011 21.95 % +0.1%
2012 21.91 % -0.2%
2013 22.14 % +1.0%
2014 21.33 % -3.7%
2015 20.43 % -4.2%
2016 20.59 % +0.8%
2017 20.07 % -2.5%
2018 18.75 % -6.6%
2019 18.66 % -0.5%
2020 17.35 % -7.1%
2021 18.28 % +5.4%
2022 20.97 % +14.7%
2023 21.63 % +3.1%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 26.73 % 26.73 % 26.73 % 10
1980s 26.73 % 26.73 % 26.73 % 10
1990s 23.32 % 18.28 % 31.78 % 10
2000s 19.38 % 17.7 % 22.55 % 10
2010s 20.77 % 18.66 % 22.14 % 10
2020s 19.56 % 17.35 % 21.63 % 4

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Democratic People's Republic of Korea was 21.63 % 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 Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
The highest recorded value was 31.78 % in 1990.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
The lowest recorded value was 17.35 % in 2020.
How does Democratic People's Republic of Korea rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Democratic People's Republic of Korea ranks 4th out of 20 countries with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
Over the last ten years it is down 2.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Democratic People's Republic of Korea 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).