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

Ghana: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 11.23 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
11.23 %
Change on year
down 2.2%
World rank
94th
of 203 countries
All-time high
33.78 %
in 1975
All-time low
8.74 %
in 1982
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

102030197019962023

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 Ghana is 11.23 %, measured in 2023.

Compared with earlier readings it is down 2.2% on the previous year and down 3.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Ghana peaked at 33.78 % in 1975 and was at its lowest, 8.74 %, in 1982.

Ghana ranks 94th of 203 countries 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 Ghana, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Ghana, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 26.58 %
1971 26.68 % +0.4%
1972 26.35 % -1.2%
1973 28.35 % +7.6%
1974 26.11 % -7.9%
1975 33.78 % +29.4%
1976 31.86 % -5.7%
1977 26.14 % -17.9%
1978 20.95 % -19.9%
1979 21.03 % +0.4%
1980 18.93 % -10.0%
1981 14.48 % -23.5%
1982 8.74 % -39.6%
1983 9.36 % +7.0%
1984 15.51 % +65.8%
1985 27.96 % +80.3%
1986 29.33 % +4.9%
1987 26 % -11.4%
1988 25.16 % -3.2%
1989 26.32 % +4.6%
1990 24.28 % -7.8%
1991 23 % -5.3%
1992 22.87 % -0.6%
1993 24.68 % +7.9%
1994 23.95 % -3.0%
1995 24.54 % +2.5%
1996 22.71 % -7.5%
1997 23.81 % +4.9%
1998 23.64 % -0.7%
1999 23.74 % +0.4%
2000 23.72 % -0.1%
2001 23.68 % -0.2%
2002 23.75 % +0.3%
2003 23.61 % -0.6%
2004 23 % -2.6%
2005 22.77 % -1.0%
2006 22.28 % -2.1%
2007 19.65 % -11.8%
2008 17.24 % -12.2%
2009 15.48 % -10.2%
2010 14.6 % -5.7%
2011 14.68 % +0.5%
2012 12.94 % -11.9%
2013 11.59 % -10.4%
2014 11.02 % -4.9%
2015 11.1 % +0.7%
2016 10.82 % -2.5%
2017 10.15 % -6.2%
2018 10.12 % -0.3%
2019 10.16 % +0.4%
2020 10.95 % +7.8%
2021 10.89 % -0.6%
2022 11.48 % +5.5%
2023 11.23 % -2.2%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 26.78 % 20.95 % 33.78 % 10
1980s 20.18 % 8.74 % 29.33 % 10
1990s 23.72 % 22.71 % 24.68 % 10
2000s 21.52 % 15.48 % 23.75 % 10
2010s 11.72 % 10.12 % 14.68 % 10
2020s 11.14 % 10.89 % 11.48 % 4

Countries ranked near Ghana

  1. 91 Latvia 11.27 % compare
  2. 92 Belgium 11.25 % compare
  3. 93 Namibia 11.23 % compare
  4. 95 Burundi 11.21 % compare
  5. 96 Mauritius 11.21 % compare
  6. 97 Palestine, State of 11.15 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Ghana?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Ghana was 11.23 % 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 Ghana?
The highest recorded value was 33.78 % in 1975.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Ghana?
The lowest recorded value was 8.74 % in 1982.
How does Ghana rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Ghana ranks 94th out of 203 countries with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Ghana?
Over the last ten years it is down 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Ghana 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).