Sierra Leone - Manufacturing, value added (current US$)

The latest value for Manufacturing, value added (current US$) in Sierra Leone was $76,589,180 as of 2020. Over the past 56 years, the value for this indicator has fluctuated between $85,750,450 in 2018 and $19,863,650 in 1999.

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
1964 $21,256,480
1965 $20,649,990
1966 $21,069,990
1967 $21,333,680
1968 $20,100,010
1969 $22,200,010
1970 $24,000,010
1971 $25,033,280
1972 $27,847,780
1973 $31,604,400
1974 $34,250,540
1975 $34,954,900
1976 $31,316,270
1977 $36,851,290
1978 $49,663,820
1979 $53,360,080
1980 $53,534,010
1981 $66,387,720
1982 $84,164,210
1983 $64,524,510
1984 $59,961,350
1987 $26,471,050
1988 $29,803,930
1989 $51,729,720
1990 $28,089,250
1991 $39,296,520
1992 $46,365,640
1993 $72,988,540
1994 $85,679,220
1995 $75,190,680
1996 $76,135,550
1997 $40,727,460
1998 $25,752,110
1999 $19,863,650
2000 $21,274,800
2001 $38,682,510
2002 $40,422,790
2003 $38,233,290
2004 $37,616,180
2005 $41,077,460
2006 $49,410,100
2007 $53,321,720
2008 $61,056,480
2009 $52,220,450
2010 $56,132,140
2011 $66,331,790
2012 $76,707,740
2013 $80,754,020
2014 $76,862,740
2015 $74,613,570
2016 $66,907,270
2017 $73,209,960
2018 $85,750,450
2019 $79,556,870
2020 $76,589,180

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