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

The value for Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) in Tunisia was 17.59 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36.61 in 2001 and a minimum value of 11.51 in 1963.

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
1963 11.51
1964 11.98
1965 15.15
1966 21.22
1967 21.02
1968 18.44
1969 16.45
1970 18.18
1971 17.50
1972 19.18
1973 19.59
1974 16.11
1975 18.18
1976 22.18
1977 18.20
1978 18.39
1979 18.70
1980 18.63
1981 19.41
1989 17.71
1990 20.26
1991 20.46
1992 21.83
1993 24.00
1994 25.45
1995 33.42
1996 33.97
1997 33.38
1998 36.38
1999 35.14
2000 35.11
2001 36.61
2002 35.95
2003 31.11
2004 29.57
2005 27.27
2006 23.99
2007 25.53
2008 23.30
2009 21.67
2010 21.93
2011 21.75
2012 19.71
2013 19.57
2014 19.21
2015 17.59
2016 17.59
2017 17.59
2018 17.59
2019 17.59

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