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

The value for Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in Kenya was 39.43 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.39 in 1996 and a minimum value of 28.52 in 2008.

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 39.22
1964 38.17
1965 36.20
1966 36.25
1967 34.58
1968 31.93
1969 33.80
1970 33.29
1971 31.45
1972 31.75
1973 31.09
1974 33.03
1975 33.84
1976 42.36
1977 40.80
1978 40.25
1979 37.66
1980 33.98
1981 32.50
1982 36.43
1983 36.50
1984 41.26
1985 40.45
1986 40.40
1987 40.62
1988 39.94
1989 40.02
1990 38.48
1991 39.80
1992 41.81
1993 43.17
1994 43.60
1995 47.92
1996 48.39
1997 45.69
1998 45.95
1999 33.98
2000 28.56
2001 28.58
2002 29.51
2003 30.59
2004 29.96
2005 29.03
2006 29.40
2007 30.29
2008 28.52
2009 35.15
2010 36.32
2011 37.90
2012 38.91
2013 39.73
2014 38.61
2015 39.25
2016 39.94
2017 41.67
2018 40.93
2019 39.43

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