Singapore - Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) in Singapore was 11.85 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 66.14 in 1987 and a minimum value of 11.85 in 2019.

Definition: Value added in manufacturing is the sum of gross output less the value of intermediate inputs used in production for industries classified in ISIC major division D. Other manufacturing, a residual, covers wood and related products (ISIC division 20), paper and related products (ISIC divisions 21 and 22), petroleum and related products (ISIC division 23), basic metals and mineral products (ISIC division27), fabricated metal products and professional goods (ISIC division 28), and other industries (ISIC divisions 25, 26, 31, 33, 36, and 37). Includes unallocated data. When data for textiles, machinery, or chemicals are shown as not available, they are included in other manufacturing.

Source: United Nations Industrial Development Organization, International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics.

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Year Value
1963 63.81
1964 60.62
1965 59.59
1966 60.86
1967 58.99
1968 58.92
1969 58.91
1970 61.90
1971 61.67
1972 61.27
1973 61.43
1974 65.03
1975 58.05
1976 60.29
1977 60.61
1978 61.18
1979 62.96
1980 64.45
1981 60.83
1982 62.27
1983 64.63
1984 65.02
1985 64.36
1986 64.98
1987 66.14
1988 66.11
1989 51.99
1990 52.00
1991 33.51
1992 32.64
1993 31.79
1994 31.10
1995 29.28
1996 28.82
1997 28.84
1998 30.03
1999 28.54
2000 25.47
2001 26.23
2002 25.18
2003 24.72
2004 21.63
2005 22.08
2006 20.86
2007 20.12
2008 21.41
2009 20.23
2010 16.33
2011 14.87
2012 15.71
2013 15.69
2014 15.16
2015 17.34
2016 17.43
2017 15.41
2018 11.85
2019 11.85

Development Relevance: Firms typically use multiple processes to produce a product. For example, an automobile manufacturer engages in forging, welding, and painting as well as advertising, accounting, and other service activities. Collecting data at such a detailed level is not practical, nor is it useful to record production data at the highest level of a large, multiplant, multiproduct firm. The ISIC has therefore adopted as the definition of an establishment "an enterprise or part of an enterprise which independently engages in one, or predominantly one, kind of economic activity at or from one location . . . for which data are available . . ." (United Nations 1990). By design, this definition matches the reporting unit required for the production accounts of the United Nations System of National Accounts. The ISIC system is described in the United Nations' International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Third Revision (1990). The discussion of the ISIC draws on Ryten (1998).

Limitations and Exceptions: In establishing classifications systems compilers must define both the types of activities to be described and the units whose activities are to be reported. There are many possibilities, and the choices affect how the statistics can be interpreted and how useful they are in analyzing economic behavior. The ISIC emphasizes commonalities in the production process and is explicitly not intended to measure outputs (for which there is a newly developed Central Product Classification). Nevertheless, the ISIC views an activity as defined by "a process resulting in a homogeneous set of products."

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The data on the distribution of manufacturing value added by industry are provided by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). UNIDO obtains the data from a variety of national and international sources, including the United Nations Statistics Division, the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the International Monetary Fund. To improve comparability over time and across countries, UNIDO supplements these data with information from industrial censuses, statistics from national and international organizations, unpublished data that it collects in the field, and estimates by the UNIDO Secretariat. Nevertheless, coverage may be incomplete, particularly for the informal sector. When direct information on inputs and outputs is not available, estimates may be used, which may result in errors in industry totals. Moreover, countries use different reference periods (calendar or fiscal year) and valuation methods (basic or producer prices) to estimate value added.

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts