The Gambia - Manufacturing, value added (current US$)

The latest value for Manufacturing, value added (current US$) in The Gambia was $53,064,670 as of 2020. Over the past 54 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between $87,503,950 in 2015 and $1,224,020 in 1968.

Definition: Manufacturing refers to industries belonging to ISIC divisions 15-37. Value added is the net output of a sector after adding up all outputs and subtracting intermediate inputs. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or depletion and degradation of natural resources. The origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

See also:

Year Value
1966 $1,316,011
1967 $1,389,419
1968 $1,224,020
1969 $1,344,022
1970 $1,536,025
1971 $1,654,823
1972 $1,748,863
1973 $2,202,773
1974 $2,834,765
1975 $3,429,204
1976 $4,133,531
1977 $5,494,985
1978 $6,472,647
1979 $7,254,819
1980 $11,766,420
1981 $12,410,810
1982 $10,045,860
1983 $14,193,130
1984 $15,387,410
1985 $15,062,020
1986 $11,617,330
1987 $13,223,740
1988 $12,804,840
1989 $13,997,310
1990 $17,533,950
1991 $63,601,900
1992 $63,539,420
1993 $65,721,340
1994 $59,904,410
1995 $64,080,090
1996 $64,249,420
1997 $64,453,110
1998 $63,387,210
1999 $58,285,690
2000 $52,977,470
2001 $45,586,280
2002 $40,597,370
2003 $28,816,350
2004 $50,615,910
2005 $64,765,970
2006 $70,050,190
2007 $83,296,940
2008 $87,323,330
2009 $70,041,420
2010 $70,232,760
2011 $77,374,100
2012 $81,336,820
2013 $77,188,210
2014 $80,059,780
2015 $87,503,950
2016 $82,932,450
2017 $67,258,820
2018 $71,094,740
2019 $68,684,560
2020 $53,064,670

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 manufacturing value added in U.S. dollars are from the World Bank's national accounts files and may differ from those UNIDO uses to calculate shares of value added by industry, in part because of differences in exchange rates. Thus value added in a particular industry estimated by applying the shares to total manufacturing value added will not match those from UNIDO sources. Classification of manufacturing industries accords with the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) revision 3. Data prior to 2008 used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data. UNIDO has converted these data to accord with revision 3. Concordances matching ISIC categories to national classification systems and to related systems such as the Standard International Trade Classification are available.

Aggregation method: Gap-filled total

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Note: Data for OECD countries are based on ISIC, revision 4.

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts