Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

Least Developed Countries (LDCs): Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 14.51 % in 2023. ▲ Rising

Latest (2023)
14.51 %
Change on year
down 0.8%
Rank
9th
of 20 groups
All-time high
14.99 %
in 2021
All-time low
9.73 %
in 1994
Years of data
54
1970–2023

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1970–2023

051015197019962023

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

Analysis

Least Developed Countries (LDCs) recorded 14.51 % for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in 2023.

The figure is down 0.8% on the previous year and up 28.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) peaked at 14.99 % in 2021 and was at its lowest, 9.73 %, in 1994.

Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 9th of 20 groups on this measure, in the middle of the range.

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

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Least Developed Countries (LDCs), 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 11.23 %
1971 11.41 % +1.5%
1972 11.15 % -2.2%
1973 11.82 % +6.0%
1974 11.96 % +1.2%
1975 12.03 % +0.6%
1976 11.96 % -0.6%
1977 12 % +0.4%
1978 12.49 % +4.0%
1979 12.47 % -0.1%
1980 12.69 % +1.8%
1981 12.56 % -1.0%
1982 12.37 % -1.5%
1983 12.04 % -2.6%
1984 11.32 % -6.0%
1985 10.84 % -4.2%
1986 10.99 % +1.4%
1987 10.75 % -2.3%
1988 11.01 % +2.5%
1989 10.88 % -1.2%
1990 10.78 % -0.9%
1991 10.34 % -4.1%
1992 9.88 % -4.4%
1993 10.27 % +3.9%
1994 9.73 % -5.3%
1995 10.16 % +4.4%
1996 10.51 % +3.5%
1997 10.33 % -1.7%
1998 10.76 % +4.2%
1999 10.42 % -3.2%
2000 10.29 % -1.2%
2001 11.26 % +9.4%
2002 11.3 % +0.4%
2003 11.29 % -0.1%
2004 11.24 % -0.4%
2005 10.54 % -6.2%
2006 10.51 % -0.3%
2007 10.71 % +1.9%
2008 10.21 % -4.7%
2009 11.5 % +12.7%
2010 11.4 % -0.8%
2011 11.17 % -2.0%
2012 11.18 % +0.1%
2013 11.27 % +0.8%
2014 11.26 % -0.2%
2015 12.18 % +8.2%
2016 12.98 % +6.6%
2017 12.79 % -1.4%
2018 13.85 % +8.2%
2019 14.42 % +4.1%
2020 14.58 % +1.1%
2021 14.99 % +2.8%
2022 14.63 % -2.4%
2023 14.51 % -0.8%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 11.85 % 11.15 % 12.49 % 10
1980s 11.55 % 10.75 % 12.69 % 10
1990s 10.32 % 9.73 % 10.78 % 10
2000s 10.89 % 10.21 % 11.5 % 10
2010s 12.25 % 11.17 % 14.42 % 10
2020s 14.68 % 14.51 % 14.99 % 4

Countries ranked near Least Developed Countries (LDCs)

  1. 6 Turkmenistan 30.1 % compare
  2. 7 Ireland 29.44 % compare
  3. 8 USSR 28.46 % compare
  4. 9 Eswatini 27.23 % compare
  5. 10 China, mainland 26.87 % compare
  6. 11 Cambodia 25.92 % compare
  7. 12 Myanmar 25.78 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) was 14.51 % 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 Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
The highest recorded value was 14.99 % in 2021.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
The lowest recorded value was 9.73 % in 1994.
How does Least Developed Countries (LDCs) rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Least Developed Countries (LDCs) ranks 9th out of 20 groups with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Least Developed Countries (LDCs)?
Over the last ten years it is up 28.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Least Developed Countries (LDCs) 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).