Comments on: Data on the Largest Manufacturing Countries in 2008

By: Top 15 Manufacturing Countries in 2009 at Curious Cat Economics Blog

Top 15 Manufacturing Countries in 2009 at Curious Cat Economics Blog — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:49:23 +0000

The big, long term story remains the same. China has continued to grow manufacturing output tremendously. I see very little data to support the stories about manufacturing having to leave China to go elsewhere…

By: Is this the start of our decline « Talking Bollocks

Is this the start of our decline « Talking Bollocks — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 21:33:26 +0000

[…] UK still has some cards up it sleeve. In 2008 we were the sixth biggest manufacturer after Italy but Russia was at 7 and Brazil at […]

By: Richard McCormack

Richard McCormack — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:44:50 +0000

Here's the problem and it is reflected in one industry after another. China produced 568 million tons of steel in 2009. The United States produced 58 million tons. That is the difference between a 10-story building and a 100-story building. Go from one industry to another and the data is similar: Auto Production: U.S. produced 5.7 million vehicles last year (the remainder of purchases were imports). China produced 13.8 million. Printed circuit board production in 2008 in the United States was $4 billion, down from $11 billion in 2000. China's PCB production in 2008 was $16 billion, four-times U.S. production (and that was before the disastrous 2009 fall-off in the United States. Machine tools -- U.S. 2009 production $2.3 billion; China's 2009 production $15 billion. The list goes on and on and on and on and on. Tell me, how in the world can China be producing less than the United States, unless there is a bad error in how this is measured? Have you gone to any U.S. city in the past year -- and seen a single crane on the skyline? Richard McCormack, manufacturing news

By: Rafael G.

Rafael G. — Tue, 04 May 2010 23:52:07 +0000

Stanislav, the problem is that PPP conversion values are not adequate to compare manufacturing output. The correct way would be to make PPP’s using only manufacturing related prices.

In this case market exchange rates are more adequate. While they fluctuate rather violently, it is the long run tendency that matters. And, in the long run tendency we have a clear picture here: Russia in relation to the US declined between 1990 and 2000, and increased between 2000 and 2008. This is pretty much consistent with other macroeconomic data.

By: Stanislav

Stanislav — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:08:10 +0000

this is pointless, as for one thing, this table does not take into account exchange rate difference. The ruble in 2008-2009 devaluated 65%, so does this mean that Russian production fell that much? It sure would look like that off of a table in USD.

You should use neutral dollar or purchasing power parity, not the USD. What happens when the USD tanks?

Furthermore, this table can easily hide a decline: if the USD value of US manufacturing (through inflation) grew 3% but production fell 2%, your table would still show a 1% increase.

By: FCAblog » Richard Murphy’s budget twittering

FCAblog » Richard Murphy’s budget twittering — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:50:44 +0000

Is the UK really the world’s sixth biggest manufacturing nation? Yes

By: USA, China and Japan Lead Manufacturing Output in 2008 at Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:50:09 +0000

The first chart shows the USA’s share of the manufacturing output, of the countries that manufactured over $185 billion in 2008, at 28.1% in 1990, 32% in 2000, 28% in 2005, and 24% in 2008…

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Curious Cat Investing and Economics Carnival #6 — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:31:34 +0000

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By: piglet

piglet — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:13:44 +0000

Three problems:
– are these data truly adjusted for inflation?
– why is there a difference to the 2007 data shown here: http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2008/09/23/top-manufacturing-countries-in-2007/
– The link to UN you provided does not lead to any manufacturing data. What is the exact source?

Finally, it would be interesting to know how much of manufacturing output is military related. That no doubt has massively increased.