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

Sri Lanka: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 17.92 % in 2023. ▲ Rising

Latest (2023)
17.92 %
Change on year
down 8.8%
World rank
34th
of 203 countries
All-time high
24.25 %
in 1977
All-time low
12.33 %
in 1973
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

0510152025197019962023

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 Sri Lanka is 17.92 %, measured in 2023.

That represents a change of down 8.8% on the previous year and down 0.8% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Sri Lanka peaked at 24.25 % in 1977 and was at its lowest, 12.33 %, in 1973.

Sri Lanka ranks 34th of 203 countries on this measure, in the top quarter.

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

Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Sri Lanka, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Sri Lanka, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 13.54 %
1971 13.73 % +1.4%
1972 13.65 % -0.6%
1973 12.33 % -9.7%
1974 13.71 % +11.3%
1975 23.35 % +70.2%
1976 22.48 % -3.7%
1977 24.25 % +7.9%
1978 23.13 % -4.6%
1979 20.5 % -11.4%
1980 17.04 % -16.9%
1981 15.56 % -8.7%
1982 14.08 % -9.5%
1983 14.1 % +0.2%
1984 15.46 % +9.6%
1985 15.56 % +0.6%
1986 14.63 % -5.9%
1987 14.75 % +0.8%
1988 14.93 % +1.3%
1989 15.64 % +4.7%
1990 16.2 % +3.6%
1991 15.92 % -1.7%
1992 16.07 % +0.9%
1993 15.97 % -0.6%
1994 15.94 % -0.2%
1995 16.35 % +2.6%
1996 16.56 % +1.3%
1997 17.37 % +4.9%
1998 17.15 % -1.2%
1999 17 % -0.9%
2000 17.45 % +2.7%
2001 17.69 % +1.3%
2002 18.53 % +4.8%
2003 18.64 % +0.6%
2004 18.77 % +0.7%
2005 19.57 % +4.2%
2006 18.4 % -5.9%
2007 17.98 % -2.3%
2008 18.14 % +0.9%
2009 18.66 % +2.9%
2010 18.46 % -1.1%
2011 18.62 % +0.9%
2012 19.74 % +6.0%
2013 18.06 % -8.5%
2014 17.16 % -5.0%
2015 16.18 % -5.7%
2016 16.02 % -1.0%
2017 14.89 % -7.0%
2018 15.03 % +1.0%
2019 16.16 % +7.5%
2020 16.26 % +0.6%
2021 17.97 % +10.5%
2022 19.65 % +9.4%
2023 17.92 % -8.8%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 18.07 % 12.33 % 24.25 % 10
1980s 15.17 % 14.08 % 17.04 % 10
1990s 16.45 % 15.92 % 17.37 % 10
2000s 18.38 % 17.45 % 19.57 % 10
2010s 17.03 % 14.89 % 19.74 % 10
2020s 17.95 % 16.26 % 19.65 % 4

Countries ranked near Sri Lanka

  1. 31 Brunei Darussalam 18.62 % compare
  2. 32 Germany 18.54 % compare
  3. 33 Central African Republic 17.95 % compare
  4. 35 Switzerland 17.84 % compare
  5. 36 Singapore 17.65 % compare
  6. 37 Jordan 17.34 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Sri Lanka?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Sri Lanka was 17.92 % 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 Sri Lanka?
The highest recorded value was 24.25 % in 1977.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Sri Lanka?
The lowest recorded value was 12.33 % in 1973.
How does Sri Lanka rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Sri Lanka ranks 34th out of 203 countries with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Sri Lanka?
Over the last ten years it is down 0.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Sri Lanka 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).