South Africa - Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) in South Africa was 54.43 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 65.70 in 1997 and a minimum value of 46.90 in 1994.

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 49.03
1964 49.63
1965 49.63
1966 49.20
1967 49.20
1968 48.05
1969 48.05
1970 49.38
1971 49.38
1972 50.09
1973 50.41
1974 51.21
1975 51.29
1976 52.53
1977 52.53
1978 54.11
1979 54.11
1980 55.21
1981 54.56
1982 52.62
1983 53.31
1984 53.50
1985 52.97
1986 53.59
1987 51.39
1988 52.23
1989 54.25
1990 54.17
1991 48.04
1992 61.19
1993 48.92
1994 46.90
1995 48.26
1996 50.40
1997 65.70
1998 49.33
1999 58.94
2000 59.35
2001 58.54
2002 58.89
2003 58.54
2004 58.50
2005 57.57
2006 56.19
2007 57.85
2008 58.53
2009 56.25
2010 55.07
2011 54.43
2012 54.43
2013 54.43
2014 54.43
2015 54.43
2016 54.43
2017 54.43
2018 54.43
2019 54.43

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