Belgium - Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in Belgium was 16.28 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.19 in 1983 and a minimum value of 11.76 in 2000.

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. Food, beverages, and tobacco correspond to ISIC divisions 15 and 16.

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

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Year Value
1963 18.89
1964 17.87
1965 17.88
1966 17.72
1967 19.00
1968 18.88
1969 17.50
1970 16.99
1971 17.32
1972 17.17
1973 16.01
1974 15.29
1975 16.75
1976 16.44
1977 16.74
1978 17.14
1979 17.05
1980 16.85
1981 18.30
1982 18.80
1983 19.19
1984 18.83
1985 18.35
1986 18.14
1987 18.34
1988 16.76
1989 16.52
1990 16.94
1991 18.07
1992 18.18
1993 18.61
1994 18.33
1995 13.32
1996 12.96
1997 13.02
1998 12.94
1999 12.50
2000 11.76
2001 12.59
2002 12.59
2003 12.89
2004 13.13
2005 12.90
2006 12.22
2007 12.55
2008 13.13
2009 15.48
2010 14.32
2011 14.88
2012 15.29
2013 15.41
2014 15.85
2015 15.70
2016 15.37
2017 15.22
2018 16.28
2019 16.28

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