Egypt - Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) in Egypt was 3.69 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.41 in 1964 and a minimum value of 3.18 in 2015.

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. Textiles and clothing correspond to ISIC divisions 17-19.

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

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Year Value
1964 39.41
1965 39.38
1966 37.66
1967 37.74
1968 33.29
1969 33.73
1970 34.91
1971 33.99
1972 30.02
1973 31.13
1974 37.14
1975 34.27
1976 32.01
1977 31.90
1978 33.29
1979 26.65
1980 30.32
1981 25.59
1982 26.00
1983 21.06
1984 17.55
1985 17.87
1986 19.25
1987 16.89
1988 16.33
1989 22.62
1990 15.49
1991 14.54
1992 12.25
1993 11.20
1994 12.43
1995 11.03
1996 12.41
1997 13.23
1998 16.31
1999 16.31
2000 16.31
2001 9.92
2002 10.02
2003 9.92
2004 14.79
2005 11.70
2006 13.24
2007 13.24
2008 13.24
2009 5.80
2010 5.85
2011 5.82
2012 3.66
2013 3.90
2014 4.41
2015 3.18
2016 3.51
2017 3.69
2018 3.69

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