India - Chemicals (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Chemicals (% of value added in manufacturing) in India was 17.81 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 23.70 in 1998 and a minimum value of 9.57 in 1963.

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. Chemicals correspond to ISIC division 24.

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

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Year Value
1963 9.57
1964 9.59
1965 9.72
1966 10.16
1967 10.79
1968 12.86
1969 12.72
1970 13.59
1971 14.31
1972 14.58
1973 14.68
1974 15.07
1975 15.06
1976 14.79
1977 14.08
1978 16.00
1979 14.69
1980 14.06
1981 14.39
1982 14.63
1983 15.71
1984 14.40
1985 15.11
1986 14.82
1987 15.72
1988 15.02
1989 14.17
1990 13.87
1991 14.99
1992 18.36
1993 18.32
1994 17.52
1995 20.16
1996 18.16
1997 18.22
1998 23.70
1999 22.94
2000 21.15
2001 20.39
2002 19.27
2003 18.04
2004 16.63
2005 16.15
2006 14.54
2007 13.62
2008 15.46
2009 15.58
2010 14.86
2011 18.07
2012 15.97
2013 16.67
2014 16.14
2015 18.96
2016 18.04
2017 17.81
2018 17.81
2019 17.81

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