Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Ratio of Value Added in Belgium
Belgium: Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Ratio of Value Added was 14.63 in 2023. ▲ Rising
Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Ratio of Value Added in Belgium, 1970–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Analysis
In 2023, value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added in Belgium stood at 14.63.
The figure is down 16.1% on the previous year and down 11.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added in Belgium peaked at 19.64 in 2008 and was at its lowest, 6.83, in 1972.
That places Belgium 21st out of 199 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 54 years of available data.
Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Ratio of Value Added in Belgium, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 8.14 | — |
| 1971 | 7.85 | -3.6% |
| 1972 | 6.83 | -13.0% |
| 1973 | 7.15 | +4.7% |
| 1974 | 9.43 | +31.9% |
| 1975 | 8.47 | -10.2% |
| 1976 | 8.26 | -2.5% |
| 1977 | 9.6 | +16.3% |
| 1978 | 9.02 | -6.1% |
| 1979 | 10.14 | +12.4% |
| 1980 | 9.15 | -9.8% |
| 1981 | 8.02 | -12.3% |
| 1982 | 8.11 | +1.1% |
| 1983 | 7.69 | -5.2% |
| 1984 | 8.02 | +4.3% |
| 1985 | 8.66 | +8.0% |
| 1986 | 8.92 | +2.9% |
| 1987 | 9.32 | +4.5% |
| 1988 | 9.9 | +6.2% |
| 1989 | 8.68 | -12.3% |
| 1990 | 10.11 | +16.5% |
| 1991 | 9.49 | -6.1% |
| 1992 | 10.03 | +5.7% |
| 1993 | 10.45 | +4.1% |
| 1994 | 11.27 | +7.9% |
| 1995 | 14.03 | +24.5% |
| 1996 | 13.68 | -2.5% |
| 1997 | 13.72 | +0.3% |
| 1998 | 14.46 | +5.4% |
| 1999 | 16.08 | +11.2% |
| 2000 | 14.91 | -7.3% |
| 2001 | 15.36 | +3.0% |
| 2002 | 16.26 | +5.8% |
| 2003 | 15.74 | -3.2% |
| 2004 | 15.73 | -0.0% |
| 2005 | 18.88 | +20.0% |
| 2006 | 16.55 | -12.3% |
| 2007 | 16.97 | +2.5% |
| 2008 | 19.64 | +15.8% |
| 2009 | 17.87 | -9.0% |
| 2010 | 15.48 | -13.4% |
| 2011 | 17.83 | +15.2% |
| 2012 | 14.94 | -16.2% |
| 2013 | 16.56 | +10.8% |
| 2014 | 17.56 | +6.0% |
| 2015 | 16.74 | -4.7% |
| 2016 | 18.19 | +8.7% |
| 2017 | 17.06 | -6.2% |
| 2018 | 18.57 | +8.9% |
| 2019 | 17.27 | -7.0% |
| 2020 | 16.85 | -2.4% |
| 2021 | 16.41 | -2.6% |
| 2022 | 17.44 | +6.3% |
| 2023 | 14.63 | -16.1% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 8.49 | 6.83 | 10.14 | 10 |
| 1980s | 8.65 | 7.69 | 9.9 | 10 |
| 1990s | 12.33 | 9.49 | 16.08 | 10 |
| 2000s | 16.79 | 14.91 | 19.64 | 10 |
| 2010s | 17.02 | 14.94 | 18.57 | 10 |
| 2020s | 16.33 | 14.63 | 17.44 | 4 |
Countries ranked near Belgium
- 18 Brunei Darussalam 15.58 compare
- 19 United Arab Emirates 15.47 compare
- 20 Luxembourg 15.42 compare
- 22 Sweden 14.28 compare
- 23 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 14.28 compare
- 24 Slovenia 12.9 compare
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- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Standard Deviation 0.574 °C (2025)
- Temperature change 2.19 °C (2025)
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- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$, 2015 0 million USD per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Value US$, 2015 0.0003 million USD per person (2024)
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- Primary wood and paper products (export/import) — Import value, per 0 1000 USD per US$ of GDP (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added in Belgium?
- Value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added in Belgium was 14.63 in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added recorded in Belgium?
- The highest recorded value was 19.64 in 2008.
- What is the lowest value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added recorded in Belgium?
- The lowest recorded value was 6.83 in 1972.
- How does Belgium rank for value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added?
- Belgium ranks 21st out of 199 countries with data for 2023.
- Is value added (total manufacturing) — ratio of value added rising or falling in Belgium?
- Over the last ten years it is down 11.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Belgium data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Value Added (Total Manufacturing) — Ratio of Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) Standard Local Currency. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).