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

The value for Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in India was 10.68 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.80 in 1969 and a minimum value of 8.76 in 2007.

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 12.69
1964 12.54
1965 13.75
1966 13.67
1967 12.43
1968 12.46
1969 14.80
1970 12.81
1971 12.19
1972 11.18
1973 10.25
1974 10.77
1975 10.84
1976 11.83
1977 12.58
1978 10.79
1979 10.15
1980 9.12
1981 9.86
1982 10.37
1983 12.34
1984 11.82
1985 11.60
1986 12.37
1987 12.00
1988 12.71
1989 13.83
1990 11.75
1991 12.91
1992 11.39
1993 12.00
1994 12.72
1995 10.10
1996 12.43
1997 12.17
1998 12.63
1999 12.65
2000 13.17
2001 13.27
2002 11.91
2003 10.23
2004 9.06
2005 9.31
2006 10.30
2007 8.76
2008 9.67
2009 9.00
2010 9.52
2011 10.03
2012 9.92
2013 9.93
2014 9.81
2015 10.28
2016 10.69
2017 10.68
2018 10.68
2019 10.68

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