Japan - Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) in Japan was 45.20 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 55 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 46.01 in 2015 and a minimum value of 18.73 in 1966.

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. Machinery and transport equipment correspond to ISIC divisions 29, 30, 32, 34, and 35.

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

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Year Value
1963 19.14
1964 19.28
1965 19.05
1966 18.73
1967 19.80
1968 21.62
1969 21.01
1970 21.73
1971 21.74
1972 21.11
1973 20.88
1974 21.34
1975 22.11
1976 21.92
1977 21.92
1978 20.78
1979 20.42
1980 21.16
1981 22.35
1982 22.59
1983 22.60
1984 22.65
1985 23.94
1986 22.81
1987 22.16
1988 22.68
1989 23.61
1990 24.91
1991 24.61
1992 23.97
1993 23.20
1994 30.89
1995 32.09
1996 33.25
1997 33.49
1998 33.39
1999 33.00
2000 33.90
2001 32.90
2002 35.05
2003 35.97
2004 36.32
2005 37.21
2006 38.38
2007 39.20
2008 39.24
2009 35.29
2010 37.54
2011 43.34
2012 38.15
2013 38.39
2014 39.58
2015 46.01
2016 45.20
2017 45.20
2018 45.20

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