Comments on: Top 15 Manufacturing Countries in 2009

By: Long Term View of Manufacturing Employment in the USA at Curious Cat Economics Blog

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:09:57 +0000

it does mean fewer manufacturing jobs, which are very good jobs, exist. This is a shame but something we shouldn’t anticipate changing. Believing we will globally, or in the USA, return to the huge number of manufacturing that were available previously jobs is not a wise conclusion to reach…

By: Chart of Historical Manufacturing Production Data by Country at Curious Cat Economics Blog

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 03:21:04 +0000

China has finally actually taken the lead as the largest manufacturer in the world. Reading many news sources and blogs you may have thought the USA lost the lead a couple of decades ago, but you would be wrong…

By: Kenneth Duckworth

Kenneth Duckworth — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:57:12 +0000

I think to take account of job losses vs. manufacturing you need to also look at labor productivity. Manufacturing output and resulting employment in an age of ever increasing productivity are more and more disconnected.

By: Praveen

Praveen — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:50:23 +0000

Very interesting article. The manufacturing data does not parallel the jobs losses and it may have to do with how the data is collected. Does this data reflect manufacturing activity within the country borders, or simply an aggregation of corporate figures? In other words, if a US corporation manufactures only half of its $100B products in US factories, will the data add $100B to US manufacturing or only $50B? Regards

By: JMac

JMac — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:13:17 +0000

Your rankings likely are inaccurate because they miss Taiwan. The problem is your underlying data–UN data unfortunately, very politically, always leaves out Taiwan.