United States - Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing)

The value for Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) in United States was 39.22 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 56 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 49.98 in 1979 and a minimum value of 37.46 in 2009.

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 47.61
1964 47.51
1965 47.91
1966 48.28
1967 48.06
1968 47.70
1969 48.10
1970 48.41
1971 48.15
1972 48.32
1973 48.64
1974 49.40
1975 47.97
1976 48.17
1977 48.99
1978 48.98
1979 49.98
1980 49.66
1981 49.42
1982 48.72
1983 48.70
1984 48.94
1985 48.76
1986 48.76
1987 48.56
1988 48.43
1989 48.36
1990 48.35
1991 47.49
1992 48.27
1993 48.39
1994 48.68
1995 49.77
1996 49.77
1997 41.23
1998 41.18
1999 41.32
2000 42.00
2001 42.13
2002 41.89
2003 41.66
2004 42.63
2005 43.26
2006 44.21
2007 43.73
2008 43.57
2009 37.46
2010 37.98
2011 39.05
2012 39.46
2013 39.60
2014 38.24
2015 38.23
2016 38.06
2017 37.90
2018 39.22
2019 39.22

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