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

The value for Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in France was 19.34 as of 2017. As the graph below shows, over the past 54 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 19.34 in 2017 and a minimum value of 12.45 in 1988.

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.

See also:

Year Value
1963 13.07
1964 13.15
1965 13.30
1966 13.27
1967 13.21
1968 13.43
1969 13.17
1970 12.47
1971 12.65
1972 12.52
1973 12.70
1974 12.52
1975 13.56
1976 13.07
1977 12.72
1978 13.24
1979 12.95
1980 13.02
1981 13.60
1982 15.01
1983 13.73
1984 14.10
1985 13.95
1986 13.15
1987 12.57
1988 12.45
1989 12.86
1996 13.40
1997 13.31
1998 13.12
1999 13.37
2000 12.86
2001 13.80
2002 14.15
2003 14.29
2004 14.54
2005 13.82
2006 13.88
2007 13.85
2008 14.81
2009 17.93
2010 17.25
2011 17.17
2012 18.34
2013 18.08
2014 18.26
2015 17.79
2016 17.58
2017 19.34

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