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

The value for Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in Iran was 12.16 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 37.64 in 1964 and a minimum value of 7.78 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 35.76
1964 37.64
1965 28.90
1966 36.00
1967 32.02
1968 33.19
1969 32.43
1970 30.43
1971 31.03
1972 29.19
1973 25.11
1974 21.76
1975 20.38
1976 18.42
1977 15.74
1978 15.74
1979 15.59
1980 15.45
1981 17.75
1982 16.69
1983 14.78
1984 12.70
1985 14.58
1986 17.31
1987 15.33
1988 18.27
1989 15.69
1990 12.16
1991 14.56
1992 12.83
1993 16.11
1994 14.46
1995 14.57
1996 12.92
1997 12.30
1998 13.39
1999 12.40
2000 10.38
2001 9.66
2002 11.19
2003 9.72
2004 8.72
2005 9.70
2006 8.71
2007 7.78
2008 7.89
2009 8.68
2010 9.65
2011 10.00
2012 11.03
2013 10.52
2014 11.03
2015 12.66
2016 12.16
2017 12.16
2018 12.16

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