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

Germany: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 18.54 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
18.54 %
Change on year
up 1.4%
World rank
32nd
of 203 countries
All-time high
31.14 %
in 1970
All-time low
17.35 %
in 2009
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

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

Analysis

In 2023, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Germany stood at 18.54 %.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 1.4% on the previous year and down 6.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Germany peaked at 31.14 % in 1970 and was at its lowest, 17.35 %, in 2009.

Germany ranks 32nd of 203 countries on this measure, 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 Germany, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Germany, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 31.14 %
1971 29.74 % -4.5%
1972 28.92 % -2.8%
1973 29.04 % +0.4%
1974 29.31 % +0.9%
1975 28.07 % -4.3%
1976 28.29 % +0.8%
1977 28.12 % -0.6%
1978 27.87 % -0.9%
1979 27.25 % -2.2%
1980 26.78 % -1.7%
1981 25.97 % -3.0%
1982 25.86 % -0.4%
1983 25.56 % -1.1%
1984 25.48 % -0.3%
1985 26.3 % +3.2%
1986 26.66 % +1.3%
1987 26.01 % -2.4%
1988 26.01 % -0.0%
1989 25.68 % -1.3%
1990 25.3 % -1.5%
1991 24.76 % -2.2%
1992 23.27 % -6.0%
1993 21.24 % -8.7%
1994 20.71 % -2.5%
1995 20.22 % -2.4%
1996 19.73 % -2.4%
1997 19.89 % +0.8%
1998 20.09 % +1.0%
1999 19.74 % -1.7%
2000 20.28 % +2.7%
2001 20.09 % -1.0%
2002 19.48 % -3.0%
2003 19.55 % +0.4%
2004 19.79 % +1.2%
2005 19.77 % -0.1%
2006 20.34 % +2.9%
2007 20.53 % +0.9%
2008 19.75 % -3.8%
2009 17.35 % -12.2%
2010 19.43 % +12.0%
2011 20.13 % +3.6%
2012 20.06 % -0.4%
2013 19.77 % -1.4%
2014 20.12 % +1.8%
2015 20.15 % +0.2%
2016 20.43 % +1.4%
2017 20.2 % -1.1%
2018 19.87 % -1.7%
2019 19.37 % -2.5%
2020 18.64 % -3.8%
2021 18.7 % +0.3%
2022 18.28 % -2.2%
2023 18.54 % +1.4%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 28.78 % 27.25 % 31.14 % 10
1980s 26.03 % 25.48 % 26.78 % 10
1990s 21.5 % 19.73 % 25.3 % 10
2000s 19.69 % 17.35 % 20.53 % 10
2010s 19.95 % 19.37 % 20.43 % 10
2020s 18.54 % 18.28 % 18.7 % 4

Countries ranked near Germany

  1. 29 Bahrain 19.06 % compare
  2. 30 Indonesia 18.67 % compare
  3. 31 Brunei Darussalam 18.62 % compare
  4. 33 Central African Republic 17.95 % compare
  5. 34 Sri Lanka 17.92 % compare
  6. 35 Switzerland 17.84 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Germany?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Germany was 18.54 % 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 Germany?
The highest recorded value was 31.14 % in 1970.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Germany?
The lowest recorded value was 17.35 % in 2009.
How does Germany rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Germany ranks 32nd out of 203 countries with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Germany?
Over the last ten years it is down 6.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Germany 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).