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

Western Europe: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ was 14.52 % in 2023. ▼ Falling

Latest (2023)
14.52 %
Change on year
up 0.8%
Rank
11th
of 29 groups
All-time high
26.4 %
in 1970
All-time low
14.11 %
in 2009
Years of data
54
1970–2023

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

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

Analysis

Western Europe recorded 14.52 % for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in 2023.

That represents a change of up 0.8% on the previous year and down 4.0% over ten years.

Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Western Europe peaked at 26.4 % in 1970 and was at its lowest, 14.11 %, in 2009.

That places Western Europe 11th out of 29 groups 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 Western Europe, year by year

Annual values for Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Share of GDP US$ in Western Europe, 1970 to 2023.
Year % Change
1970 26.4 %
1971 25.69 % -2.7%
1972 25.02 % -2.6%
1973 25.11 % +0.3%
1974 25.64 % +2.1%
1975 23.97 % -6.5%
1976 23.92 % -0.2%
1977 23.69 % -1.0%
1978 23.43 % -1.1%
1979 22.98 % -1.9%
1980 22.36 % -2.7%
1981 21.62 % -3.3%
1982 21.39 % -1.1%
1983 21.28 % -0.5%
1984 21.19 % -0.4%
1985 21.53 % +1.6%
1986 21.66 % +0.6%
1987 21.23 % -2.0%
1988 21.17 % -0.3%
1989 20.93 % -1.1%
1990 20.8 % -0.6%
1991 20.4 % -1.9%
1992 19.57 % -4.0%
1993 18.39 % -6.1%
1994 18.05 % -1.8%
1995 17.89 % -0.9%
1996 17.41 % -2.7%
1997 17.49 % +0.5%
1998 17.52 % +0.1%
1999 17.18 % -1.9%
2000 17.36 % +1.1%
2001 17.12 % -1.4%
2002 16.61 % -3.0%
2003 16.37 % -1.5%
2004 16.29 % -0.5%
2005 16.12 % -1.0%
2006 16.13 % +0.1%
2007 16.22 % +0.5%
2008 15.57 % -4.0%
2009 14.11 % -9.4%
2010 14.95 % +6.0%
2011 15.35 % +2.7%
2012 15.27 % -0.6%
2013 15.12 % -1.0%
2014 15.27 % +1.0%
2015 15.38 % +0.7%
2016 15.52 % +0.9%
2017 15.42 % -0.6%
2018 15.25 % -1.1%
2019 15.02 % -1.5%
2020 14.5 % -3.5%
2021 14.53 % +0.2%
2022 14.41 % -0.8%
2023 14.52 % +0.8%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 24.59 % 22.98 % 26.4 % 10
1980s 21.44 % 20.93 % 22.36 % 10
1990s 18.47 % 17.18 % 20.8 % 10
2000s 16.19 % 14.11 % 17.36 % 10
2010s 15.25 % 14.95 % 15.52 % 10
2020s 14.49 % 14.41 % 14.53 % 4

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  3. 9 Eswatini 27.23 % compare
  4. 10 China, mainland 26.87 % compare
  5. 11 Bolivia (Plurinational State of) 10.19 % compare
  6. 11 Cambodia 25.92 % compare
  7. 12 Lao People's Democratic Republic 10.01 % compare
  8. 12 Myanmar 25.78 % compare
  9. 13 Republic of Korea 25.61 % compare
  10. 13 Republic of Moldova 9.67 % compare
  11. 14 Thailand 24.91 % compare
  12. 14 United Republic of Tanzania 7.02 % compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Western Europe?
Value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ in Western Europe was 14.52 % 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 Western Europe?
The highest recorded value was 26.4 % in 1970.
What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ recorded in Western Europe?
The lowest recorded value was 14.11 % in 2009.
How does Western Europe rank for value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$?
Western Europe ranks 11th out of 29 groups with data for 2023.
Is value added (total manufacturing) — share of gdp us$ rising or falling in Western Europe?
Over the last ten years it is down 4.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Western Europe 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).