Here is updated data from the UN on manufacturing output by country. China continues to grow amazingly moving into second place for 2006. UN Data, in billions of current US dollars:
| Country | 1990 | 2000 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | 1,040 | 1,543 | 1,545 | 1,629 | 1,725 | |
| China | 143 | 484 | 788 | 939 | 1096 | |
| Japan | 808 | 1,033 | 962 | 954 | 929 | |
| Germany | 437 | 392 | 559 | 584 | 620 | |
| Italy | 240 | 206 | 295 | 291 | 313 | |
| United Kingdom | 207 | 230 | 283 | 283 | 308 | |
| France | 223 | 190 | 256 | 253 | 275 | |
| Brazil | 117 | 120 | 130 | 172 | 231 | |
| Korea | 65 | 134 | 173 | 199 | 216 | |
| Canada | 92 | 129 | 165 | 188 | 213 | |
| Additional countries of interest – not the next largest | ||||||
| Mexico | 50 | 107 | 111 | 122 | 136 | |
| India | 50 | 67 | 100 | 118 | 130 | |
| Indonesia | 29 | 46 | 72 | 79 | 103 | |
| Turkey | 33 | 38 | 75 | 92 | 100 | |
The UN provided data separating out manufacturing from mining and utilities so the data above is just for manufacturing as was the manufacturing data for 2005 (two years included all 3 categories together, see: Global Manufacturing Data by Country. The tables includes the top 10 countries and some additional countries. This data cannot be seen as perfectly accurate. There is a fair amount of error within the data (and you will notice some of the data fluctuates when you look back at previous posts for output for years in the past), still it provides a useful view of global manufacturing activity.
Related: Manufacturing Value Added Economic Data by Country – Worldwide manufacturing job data – Manufacturing Data: What Does it Mean – Manufacturing Jobs – Curious Cat Economics Search Engine
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The top 6 countries by h-index (a measure of scientific publication): USA, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Japan and Canada…
“Jobs in the sector [engineering] – the backbone of Germany’s manufacturing industry – rose by 27,000 in January, the highest monthly increase since the 1960s…”
USA 25.9% (of world oil consumption), 4.5% (of population), 21% of world GDP;
European Union 18.1%, 7.4%, 21.9%
China 8.6%, 19.9%, 10.7%
Japan 6.7%, 1.9%, 6.5%
There is little change in most of the data from last year, which I think is a good sign, it wouldn’t make much sense to have radical shifts over a year in these rankings…
The USA’s share of the manufacturing output of the countries that manufactured over $200 billion in 2007 (the 12 countries on the top of the chart above) in 1990 was 28%, 1995 28%, 2000 33%, 2005 30%, 2006 28%, 2007 27%…
From 2000-2007 four countries show slight average annual increases in employment: Spain .5%, Korea .4%, Taiwan .2% and Italy .2%.