Mauritius - Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) in Mauritius was 34.78 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 51 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 53.82 in 1999 and a minimum value of 5.35 in 1968.

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. Textiles and clothing correspond to ISIC divisions 17-19.

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

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Year Value
1968 5.35
1969 5.50
1970 5.88
1971 5.43
1972 6.09
1973 5.55
1974 8.60
1975 13.34
1976 15.42
1977 18.15
1978 19.64
1979 23.20
1980 29.80
1981 32.59
1982 30.33
1983 32.46
1984 38.02
1985 46.69
1986 48.65
1987 48.32
1988 47.43
1989 46.06
1990 45.69
1991 45.64
1992 45.37
1993 45.53
1994 47.24
1995 46.15
1996 48.80
1997 51.98
1998 50.89
1999 53.82
2000 52.46
2001 52.27
2002 49.88
2003 46.18
2004 42.51
2005 37.75
2006 36.43
2007 36.33
2008 31.93
2009 31.97
2010 30.93
2011 35.31
2012 34.85
2013 34.65
2014 34.15
2015 37.10
2016 35.39
2017 34.78
2018 34.78
2019 34.78

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