Kenya - Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) in Kenya was 31.56 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.20 in 2008 and a minimum value of 28.96 in 2018.

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. Other manufacturing, a residual, covers wood and related products (ISIC division 20), paper and related products (ISIC divisions 21 and 22), petroleum and related products (ISIC division 23), basic metals and mineral products (ISIC division27), fabricated metal products and professional goods (ISIC division 28), and other industries (ISIC divisions 25, 26, 31, 33, 36, and 37). Includes unallocated data. When data for textiles, machinery, or chemicals are shown as not available, they are included in other manufacturing.

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

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Year Value
1963 34.70
1964 34.17
1965 36.50
1966 38.51
1967 38.22
1968 37.60
1969 38.09
1970 39.39
1971 39.58
1972 38.39
1973 41.46
1974 41.29
1975 38.41
1976 34.10
1977 36.85
1978 35.64
1979 36.80
1980 35.61
1981 37.74
1982 35.16
1983 35.13
1984 31.89
1985 32.45
1986 32.28
1987 33.11
1988 35.42
1989 35.71
1990 37.92
1991 37.82
1992 36.22
1993 35.48
1994 34.67
1995 33.10
1996 30.52
1997 34.59
1998 34.49
1999 49.50
2000 55.46
2001 54.47
2002 54.84
2003 53.24
2004 55.34
2005 58.72
2006 56.12
2007 56.37
2008 59.20
2009 44.20
2010 36.95
2011 38.72
2012 35.43
2013 34.29
2014 33.46
2015 32.15
2016 30.40
2017 30.05
2018 28.96
2019 31.56

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