Malawi - Manufacturing, value added (current US$)

The latest value for Manufacturing, value added (current US$) in Malawi was $1,272,098,000 as of 2019. Over the past 44 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between $1,272,098,000 in 2019 and $75,133,140 in 1975.

Definition: Manufacturing refers to industries belonging to ISIC divisions 15-37. 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 origin of value added is determined by the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC), revision 3. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

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

See also:

Year Value
1975 $75,133,140
1976 $75,355,970
1977 $88,935,650
1978 $100,509,700
1979 $151,196,500
1980 $151,706,800
1981 $156,903,700
1982 $145,129,000
1983 $158,229,600
1984 $149,310,100
1985 $145,397,700
1986 $157,156,800
1987 $174,629,300
1988 $189,297,300
1989 $249,887,900
1990 $313,137,200
1991 $359,051,000
1992 $342,788,600
1993 $296,974,000
1994 $183,136,900
1995 $195,401,100
1996 $295,427,000
1997 $335,533,400
1998 $215,548,000
1999 $216,079,400
2000 $202,550,900
2001 $180,129,700
2002 $433,073,500
2003 $433,252,600
2004 $391,984,500
2005 $375,905,700
2006 $495,913,200
2007 $618,359,300
2008 $623,532,000
2009 $642,557,800
2010 $689,691,500
2011 $805,963,900
2012 $557,880,400
2013 $527,825,600
2014 $577,551,200
2015 $611,908,200
2016 $517,164,900
2017 $1,010,358,000
2018 $1,125,585,000
2019 $1,272,098,000

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 manufacturing value added in U.S. dollars are from the World Bank's national accounts files and may differ from those UNIDO uses to calculate shares of value added by industry, in part because of differences in exchange rates. Thus value added in a particular industry estimated by applying the shares to total manufacturing value added will not match those from UNIDO sources. Classification of manufacturing industries accords with the United Nations International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) revision 3. Data prior to 2008 used revision 2, first published in 1948. Revision 3 was completed in 1989, and many countries now use it. But revision 2 is still widely used for compiling cross-country data. UNIDO has converted these data to accord with revision 3. Concordances matching ISIC categories to national classification systems and to related systems such as the Standard International Trade Classification are available.

Aggregation method: Gap-filled total

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Note: Data for OECD countries are based on ISIC, revision 4.

Classification

Topic: Economic Policy & Debt Indicators

Sub-Topic: National accounts