Manufacturing, value added (current US$) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: Manufacturing refers to industries belonging to ISIC divisions 15-37. Value added is the net output of a sector after adding up all outputs and subtracting intermediate inputs. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or depletion and degradation of natural resources. The origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

Source: World Bank national accounts data, and OECD National Accounts data files.

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Rank Country Value Year
1 China 3,853,810,000,000.00 2020
2 Japan 1,045,550,000,000.00 2019
3 Korea 406,373,000,000.00 2020
4 India 348,365,000,000.00 2020
5 Indonesia 210,396,000,000.00 2020
6 Russia 196,649,000,000.00 2020
7 Turkey 137,709,000,000.00 2020
8 Thailand 126,596,000,000.00 2020
9 Saudi Arabia 90,774,170,000.00 2020
10 Malaysia 75,082,190,000.00 2020
11 Singapore 69,820,400,000.00 2020
12 Philippines 63,882,600,000.00 2020
13 Bangladesh 59,803,700,000.00 2020
14 Israel 46,099,140,000.00 2020
15 Vietnam 45,272,980,000.00 2020
16 Iran 35,996,930,000.00 2020
17 United Arab Emirates 34,752,040,000.00 2020
18 Pakistan 30,110,170,000.00 2020
19 Kazakhstan 22,364,800,000.00 2020
20 Myanmar 17,009,780,000.00 2019
21 Sri Lanka 13,073,650,000.00 2020
22 Uzbekistan 11,620,880,000.00 2020
23 Qatar 11,424,760,000.00 2020
24 Jordan 7,546,817,000.00 2020
25 Kuwait 7,000,883,000.00 2020
26 Bahrain 6,294,814,000.00 2020
27 Oman 5,900,650,000.00 2020
28 Iraq 5,023,868,000.00 2020
29 Cambodia 4,240,495,000.00 2020
30 Yemen 3,699,414,000.00 2014
31 Hong Kong SAR, China 3,267,932,000.00 2020
32 Azerbaijan 2,457,470,000.00 2020
33 Brunei 1,893,302,000.00 2020
34 Armenia 1,565,706,000.00 2020
35 Afghanistan 1,544,166,000.00 2020
36 Nepal 1,494,797,000.00 2020
37 Georgia 1,480,903,000.00 2020
38 Lao PDR 1,458,711,000.00 2020
39 Turkmenistan 1,398,888,000.00 2004
40 Kyrgyz Republic 1,315,802,000.00 2020
41 Tajikistan 1,114,990,000.00 2019
42 Mongolia 1,032,577,000.00 2020
43 Lebanon 988,028,800.00 2020
44 Macao SAR, China 218,798,100.00 2020
45 Bhutan 137,680,000.00 2020
46 Timor-Leste 33,038,200.00 2020

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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 manufacturing value added in U.S. dollars are from the World Bank's national accounts files and may differ from those UNIDO uses to calculate shares of value added by industry, in part because of differences in exchange rates. Thus value added in a particular industry estimated by applying the shares to total manufacturing value added will not match those from UNIDO sources. Classification of manufacturing industries accords with the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) revision 3. Data prior to 2008 used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data. UNIDO has converted these data to accord with revision 3. Concordances matching ISIC categories to national classification systems and to related systems such as the Standard International Trade Classification are available.

Aggregation method: Gap-filled total

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Note: Data for OECD countries are based on ISIC, revision 4.