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

Southern Africa: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 12.69 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
12.69 %
Change on year
up 4.7%
Rank
18th
of 29 groups
All-time high
21.48 %
in 1981
All-time low
11.67 %
in 2020
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

05101520197019962023

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 Southern Africa is 12.69 %, measured in 2023.

That represents a change of up 4.7% on the previous year and up 2.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Southern Africa peaked at 21.48 % in 1981 and was at its lowest, 11.67 %, in 2020.

Southern Africa ranks 18th of 29 groups 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 Southern Africa, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Southern Africa, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 20.52 %
1971 19.83 % -3.4%
1972 19.26 % -2.9%
1973 19.51 % +1.3%
1974 18.99 % -2.6%
1975 20.59 % +8.4%
1976 20.82 % +1.1%
1977 19.09 % -8.3%
1978 18.77 % -1.7%
1979 19.5 % +3.9%
1980 19.47 % -0.2%
1981 21.48 % +10.3%
1982 20.99 % -2.3%
1983 20.88 % -0.5%
1984 20.35 % -2.6%
1985 19.14 % -5.9%
1986 19.27 % +0.6%
1987 19.76 % +2.6%
1988 20.06 % +1.5%
1989 20.23 % +0.9%
1990 20.44 % +1.1%
1991 21.18 % +3.6%
1992 21.22 % +0.2%
1993 20.79 % -2.0%
1994 20.41 % -1.9%
1995 20.66 % +1.3%
1996 19.65 % -4.9%
1997 19.36 % -1.5%
1998 18.83 % -2.7%
1999 17.98 % -4.5%
2000 18.42 % +2.5%
2001 18.49 % +0.4%
2002 18.54 % +0.3%
2003 18.1 % -2.4%
2004 17.65 % -2.5%
2005 17.06 % -3.3%
2006 15.5 % -9.2%
2007 15.41 % -0.5%
2008 15.46 % +0.3%
2009 14.51 % -6.1%
2010 13.85 % -4.6%
2011 12.9 % -6.8%
2012 12.53 % -2.9%
2013 12.34 % -1.5%
2014 12.42 % +0.7%
2015 12.52 % +0.8%
2016 12.43 % -0.7%
2017 12.46 % +0.2%
2018 12.41 % -0.4%
2019 12.36 % -0.4%
2020 11.67 % -5.6%
2021 11.81 % +1.2%
2022 12.12 % +2.6%
2023 12.69 % +4.7%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 19.69 % 18.77 % 20.82 % 10
1980s 20.16 % 19.14 % 21.48 % 10
1990s 20.05 % 17.98 % 21.22 % 10
2000s 16.91 % 14.51 % 18.54 % 10
2010s 12.62 % 12.34 % 13.85 % 10
2020s 12.07 % 11.67 % 12.69 % 4

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  3. 16 Haiti 24.48 % compare
  4. 16 Melanesia 4.46 % compare
  5. 17 Equatorial Guinea 23.37 % compare
  6. 17 Micronesia 4.24 % compare
  7. 18 Malaysia 23.05 % compare
  8. 18 Syrian Arab Republic 2.8 % compare
  9. 19 Belarus 23.01 % compare
  10. 19 Timor-Leste 1.65 % compare
  11. 20 Bangladesh 22.34 % compare
  12. 20 Micronesia (Federated States of) 0.4922 % compare
  13. 21 Slovakia 20.74 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Southern Africa?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Southern Africa was 12.69 % 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 Southern Africa?
The highest recorded value was 21.48 % in 1981.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Southern Africa?
The lowest recorded value was 11.67 % in 2020.
How does Southern Africa rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Southern Africa ranks 18th out of 29 groups with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Southern Africa?
Over the last ten years it is up 2.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Southern 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).