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

The value for Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) in Poland was 22.44 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 28.34 in 1981 and a minimum value of 13.85 in 1992.

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 16.39
1964 16.87
1965 17.03
1966 17.15
1967 17.13
1968 17.30
1969 17.30
1970 18.16
1971 19.48
1972 19.85
1973 20.12
1974 19.68
1975 19.76
1976 19.55
1977 23.53
1978 24.69
1979 25.58
1980 24.96
1981 28.34
1982 22.92
1983 21.69
1984 21.75
1985 22.98
1986 22.75
1987 23.04
1988 23.99
1989 20.13
1990 19.37
1991 16.05
1992 13.85
1993 14.49
1994 18.01
1995 16.70
1996 18.16
1997 16.74
1998 16.21
1999 17.71
2000 14.93
2001 15.03
2002 14.70
2003 14.56
2004 15.54
2005 16.42
2006 19.74
2007 18.92
2008 20.95
2009 24.19
2010 24.31
2011 24.23
2012 23.48
2013 24.03
2014 23.72
2015 23.18
2016 22.57
2017 23.18
2018 22.44
2019 22.44

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