Ethiopia's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) was 5.45% in 2015, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 4.35 percentage points from 1.1% in 2005.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 5.45% | 2015 |
| Five years earlier | 2.82% | 2010 |
| Ten years earlier | 1.1% | 2005 |
| Highest | 7.01% | 2000 |
| Lowest | 1.04% | 1990 |
| Average since 2006 | 3.43% | 2006–2015 |
| First recorded | 1.04% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2015, Ethiopia's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 0 percentage points on 2014 (from 5.45% to 5.45%).
Across the 24 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2014), the average change was +0.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3.13 percentage points in 2000 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.81 percentage points in 2008. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2006 to 2015 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.33 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 34% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
Closest to Ethiopia in the 2015 ranking
What this measures
Machinery and transport equipment manufacturing includes industries classified in ISIC (Rev. 3) divisions 29-35. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of value added in manufacturing which is the contribution to the economy by the manufacturing sector (ISIC Rev. 3 major division D).
Limitations: In establishing classifications systems compilers must define both the types of activities to be described and the units whose activities are to be reported. There are many possibilities, and the choices affect how the statistics can be interpreted and how useful they are in analyzing economic behavior. The ISIC emphasizes commonalities in the production process and is explicitly not intended to measure outputs (for which there is a newly developed Central Product Classification). Nevertheless, the ISIC views an activity as defined by "a process resulting in a homogeneous set of products."
All 26 values
| Year | Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 5.45 |
| 2014 | 5.45 |
| 2013 | 5.67 |
| 2012 | 2.89 |
| 2011 | 1.52 |
| 2010 | 2.82 |
| 2009 | 1.44 |
| 2008 | 1.91 |
| 2007 | 4.72 |
| 2006 | 2.42 |
| 2005 |
Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) in nearby economies
- Botswana — 16.46% (2023)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 1.61% (2022)
- Ghana — 0.79% (2015)
- Kenya — 5.59% (2023)
- Madagascar — 0.89% (2024)
- Malawi — 0.32% (2021)
- Mauritius — 5.6% (2023)
- Senegal — 2.05% (2023)
- South Africa
More economic policy & debt data for Ethiopia
- GDP (current US$) — US$126.36 billion (2025)
- GDP (current LCU) — 15.09 trillion (2025)
- GDP per capita (current US$) — US$932.73 (2025)
- GDP per capita (current LCU) — 111,421 (2025)
- GNI (current US$) — US$126.14 billion (2025)
- GNI (current LCU) — 15.07 trillion (2025)
- GNI per capita (current LCU) — 111,231 (2025)
- Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$3.78 billion (2024)
- Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$3.78 billion (2024)
- GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$128.07 billion (2025)
- GDP (constant LCU)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Ethiopia's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing)?
- 5.45% in 2015, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 4.41 percentage points from 1.04% in 1990. The highest value was 7.01% in 2000 and the lowest 1.04% in 1990.
- Is the latest change in machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) unusual for Ethiopia?
- In 2015, Ethiopia's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 0 percentage points on 2014 (from 5.45% to 5.45%). Across the 24 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2014), the average change was +0.18 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.62 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.MNF.MTRN.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics, UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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