Services, value added (constant 2010 US$) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Services correspond to ISIC divisions 50-99. They include value added in wholesale and retail trade (including hotels and restaurants), transport, and government, financial, professional, and personal services such as education, health care, and real estate services. Also included are imputed bank service charges, import duties, and any statistical discrepancies noted by national compilers as well as discrepancies arising from rescaling. 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 industrial origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3 or 4. Data are in constant 2010 U.S. dollars.

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

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Nigeria 282,998,000,000.00 2020
2 South Africa 224,369,000,000.00 2020
3 Egypt 216,724,000,000.00 2020
4 Algeria 87,415,700,000.00 2020
5 Angola 53,666,160,000.00 2020
6 Morocco 53,055,540,000.00 2020
7 Kenya 48,453,800,000.00 2020
8 Ethiopia 38,811,720,000.00 2020
9 Côte d'Ivoire 28,999,780,000.00 2020
10 Tunisia 26,437,620,000.00 2020
11 Sudan 23,939,420,000.00 2020
12 Ghana 23,889,190,000.00 2020
13 Tanzania 23,394,790,000.00 2020
14 Cameroon 19,037,440,000.00 2020
15 Uganda 18,258,960,000.00 2020
16 Dem. Rep. Congo 14,478,280,000.00 2020
17 Zambia 13,021,420,000.00 2020
18 Zimbabwe 12,027,290,000.00 2020
19 Senegal 11,447,870,000.00 2020
20 Botswana 9,562,217,000.00 2020
21 Mozambique 8,105,729,000.00 2020
22 Mauritius 7,759,594,000.00 2020
23 Benin 7,024,290,000.00 2020
24 Burkina Faso 6,326,732,000.00 2020
25 Namibia 6,283,376,000.00 2020
26 Gabon 6,097,335,000.00 2020
27 Madagascar 6,095,139,000.00 2020
28 Mali 6,094,241,000.00 2020
29 Rwanda 5,403,310,000.00 2020
30 Equatorial Guinea 4,773,012,000.00 2020
31 Guinea 4,754,982,000.00 2020
32 Niger 4,634,577,000.00 2020
33 Malawi 3,834,507,000.00 2020
34 Congo 3,549,852,000.00 2020
35 Mauritania 3,543,631,000.00 2020
36 Chad 2,994,302,000.00 2020
37 Djibouti 2,391,591,000.00 2020
38 Eswatini 2,330,559,000.00 2020
39 Sierra Leone 1,642,447,000.00 2020
40 Burundi 1,551,372,000.00 2020
41 Togo 1,393,075,000.00 2020
42 Liberia 1,189,041,000.00 2020
43 Lesotho 1,055,869,000.00 2020
44 Seychelles 989,842,900.00 2020
45 Cabo Verde 984,763,000.00 2020
46 Central African Republic 909,236,500.00 2020
47 The Gambia 849,081,700.00 2020
48 Comoros 595,604,600.00 2020
49 Guinea-Bissau 428,127,900.00 2020
50 São Tomé and Principe 263,649,200.00 2020

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Development Relevance: An economy's growth is measured by the change in the volume of its output or in the real incomes of its residents. The 2008 United Nations System of National Accounts (2008 SNA) offers three plausible indicators for calculating growth: the volume of gross domestic product (GDP), real gross domestic income, and real gross national income. The volume of GDP is the sum of value added, measured at constant prices, by households, government, and industries operating in the economy. GDP accounts for all domestic production, regardless of whether the income accrues to domestic or foreign institutions.

Limitations and Exceptions: In the services industries, including most of government, value added in constant prices is often imputed from labor inputs, such as real wages or number of employees. In the absence of well defined measures of output, measuring the growth of services remains difficult.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Gross domestic product (GDP) represents the sum of value added by all its producers. Value added is the value of the gross output of producers less the value of intermediate goods and services consumed in production, before accounting for consumption of fixed capital in production. The United Nations System of National Accounts calls for value added to be valued at either basic prices (excluding net taxes on products) or producer prices (including net taxes on products paid by producers but excluding sales or value added taxes). Both valuations exclude transport charges that are invoiced separately by producers. Total GDP is measured at purchaser prices. Value added by industry is normally measured at basic prices.

Aggregation method: Gap-filled total

Base Period: 2010

Periodicity: Annual