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

Eastern Africa: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 8.04 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
8.04 %
Change on year
down 5.8%
Rank
27th
of 29 groups
All-time high
16.17 %
in 1973
All-time low
8.04 %
in 2023
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

051015197019962023

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 Eastern Africa is 8.04 %, measured in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 54 years on record.

That represents a change of down 5.8% on the previous year and down 12.4% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Eastern Africa peaked at 16.17 % in 1973 and was at its lowest, 8.04 %, in 2023.

Eastern Africa ranks 27th of 29 groups on this measure, in the bottom 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 Eastern Africa, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Eastern Africa, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 14.96 %
1971 15.48 % +3.5%
1972 15.86 % +2.5%
1973 16.17 % +1.9%
1974 16 % -1.0%
1975 16.05 % +0.3%
1976 15.68 % -2.3%
1977 15.44 % -1.5%
1978 15.98 % +3.5%
1979 15.91 % -0.4%
1980 15.9 % -0.1%
1981 15.62 % -1.8%
1982 15.06 % -3.6%
1983 14.18 % -5.8%
1984 13.2 % -6.9%
1985 11.92 % -9.7%
1986 12.56 % +5.4%
1987 13.41 % +6.8%
1988 13.89 % +3.5%
1989 14.79 % +6.5%
1990 13.98 % -5.5%
1991 14.45 % +3.3%
1992 14.58 % +0.9%
1993 12.96 % -11.1%
1994 11.87 % -8.4%
1995 11.63 % -2.0%
1996 11.78 % +1.3%
1997 11.48 % -2.6%
1998 11.46 % -0.1%
1999 11.06 % -3.5%
2000 10.79 % -2.4%
2001 10.75 % -0.4%
2002 10.39 % -3.3%
2003 10.63 % +2.3%
2004 10.48 % -1.5%
2005 9.87 % -5.8%
2006 10.83 % +9.7%
2007 9.87 % -8.8%
2008 8.97 % -9.2%
2009 9.35 % +4.2%
2010 9.73 % +4.1%
2011 9.69 % -0.4%
2012 9.49 % -2.1%
2013 9.17 % -3.3%
2014 8.76 % -4.5%
2015 8.77 % +0.1%
2016 8.69 % -0.9%
2017 8.75 % +0.7%
2018 8.64 % -1.3%
2019 8.43 % -2.4%
2020 8.43 % +0.0%
2021 8.17 % -3.1%
2022 8.53 % +4.4%
2023 8.04 % -5.8%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 15.75 % 14.96 % 16.17 % 10
1980s 14.05 % 11.92 % 15.9 % 10
1990s 12.53 % 11.06 % 14.58 % 10
2000s 10.19 % 8.97 % 10.83 % 10
2010s 9.01 % 8.43 % 9.73 % 10
2020s 8.29 % 8.04 % 8.53 % 4

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Eastern Africa?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Eastern Africa was 8.04 % 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 Eastern Africa?
The highest recorded value was 16.17 % in 1973.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Eastern Africa?
The lowest recorded value was 8.04 % in 2023.
How does Eastern Africa rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Eastern Africa ranks 27th out of 29 groups with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Eastern Africa?
Over the last ten years it is down 12.4%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Eastern 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).