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

Malawi: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 11.52 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
11.52 %
Change on year
up 8.6%
World rank
89th
of 203 countries
All-time high
22.26 %
in 1992
All-time low
9.91 %
in 2010
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

05101520197019962023

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

Analysis

In 2023, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Malawi stood at 11.52 %.

The figure is up 8.6% on the previous year and up 10.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Malawi peaked at 22.26 % in 1992 and was at its lowest, 9.91 %, in 2010.

That places Malawi 89th out of 203 countries with data for 2023, putting it 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 Malawi, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Malawi, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 12.52 %
1971 10.85 % -13.3%
1972 12.07 % +11.2%
1973 15.6 % +29.2%
1974 16.16 % +3.6%
1975 17.31 % +7.1%
1976 16.65 % -3.8%
1977 15.11 % -9.3%
1978 16.42 % +8.7%
1979 17.56 % +6.9%
1980 20.9 % +19.0%
1981 19.29 % -7.7%
1982 16.75 % -13.2%
1983 14.39 % -14.1%
1984 19.28 % +34.0%
1985 18.58 % -3.7%
1986 20.82 % +12.1%
1987 21.72 % +4.3%
1988 21.13 % -2.7%
1989 17.95 % -15.1%
1990 21.1 % +17.6%
1991 20.94 % -0.8%
1992 22.26 % +6.3%
1993 17.54 % -21.2%
1994 18.31 % +4.4%
1995 16.85 % -7.9%
1996 15.74 % -6.6%
1997 14.88 % -5.5%
1998 15 % +0.8%
1999 14.77 % -1.5%
2000 14.13 % -4.4%
2001 12.68 % -10.3%
2002 12.39 % -2.3%
2003 13.5 % +9.0%
2004 11.28 % -16.5%
2005 10.28 % -8.8%
2006 12.4 % +20.6%
2007 13.95 % +12.5%
2008 11.72 % -16.0%
2009 10.38 % -11.4%
2010 9.91 % -4.5%
2011 10.38 % +4.7%
2012 10.15 % -2.2%
2013 10.4 % +2.4%
2014 10.73 % +3.2%
2015 11.12 % +3.6%
2016 11.31 % +1.7%
2017 11.3 % -0.1%
2018 11.42 % +1.1%
2019 11.53 % +1.0%
2020 12.06 % +4.6%
2021 11.89 % -1.4%
2022 10.6 % -10.8%
2023 11.52 % +8.6%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 15.03 % 10.85 % 17.56 % 10
1980s 19.08 % 14.39 % 21.72 % 10
1990s 17.74 % 14.77 % 22.26 % 10
2000s 12.27 % 10.28 % 14.13 % 10
2010s 10.82 % 9.91 % 11.53 % 10
2020s 11.52 % 10.6 % 12.06 % 4

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Malawi?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Malawi was 11.52 % 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 Malawi?
The highest recorded value was 22.26 % in 1992.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Malawi?
The lowest recorded value was 9.91 % in 2010.
How does Malawi rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Malawi ranks 89th out of 203 countries with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Malawi?
Over the last ten years it is up 10.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Malawi 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).