Manufacturing share of GDP in World
Manufacturing produced 14.9% of GDP in the world in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1997.
World is a group: All economies covered by the World Bank. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
World, 2025
14.9%
Change from 2024
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European Union, 2025
14.3%
Manufacturing share of GDP in World over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | World | European Union |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14.9% | 14.3% |
| 2024 | 14.9% | 14.3% |
| 2023 | 15.2% | 14.8% |
| 2022 | 15.7% | 14.9% |
| 2021 | 16.4% | 14.7% |
| 2020 | 15.9% | 14.5% |
| 2019 | 16.0% | 14.9% |
| 2018 | 16.4% | 15.1% |
| 2017 | 16.3% | 15.2% |
| 2016 | 16.2% | 15.3% |
| 2015 | 16.4% | 15.2% |
| 2014 | 16.1% | 14.6% |
| 2013 | 15.9% | 14.4% |
| 2012 | 16.1% | 14.5% |
| 2011 | 16.1% | 14.7% |
| 2010 | 16.0% | 14.4% |
| 2009 | 15.5% | 13.8% |
| 2008 | 16.1% | 15.2% |
| 2007 | 16.3% | 15.7% |
| 2006 | 16.3% | 15.7% |
| 2005 | 16.4% | 15.7% |
| 2004 | 16.6% | 16.0% |
| 2003 | 16.7% | 16.2% |
| 2002 | 16.9% | 16.6% |
| 2001 | 17.3% | 17.1% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of 0 percentage points from 14.9% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 16.4%, the figure has changed by −1.5 percentage points.
- The figure for the European Union in 2025 was 14.3%.