Georgia: Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Georgia's manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) fell 3.69 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.57% to 29.88%).

Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1997 to 2024), the average change was −0.25 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.99 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 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 8.7 percentage points in 2004 and the biggest yearly fall was 15.34 percentage points in 2009. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 2% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

In 2025, Georgia had the 68th highest value of the 103 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Georgia in the 2025 ranking

• Togo — 65th of 103: 34.96%
• French Polynesia — 66th of 103: 34.12%
• Kyrgyz Republic — 67th of 103: 32.33%
• Kenya — 69th of 103: 29.72%
• Brunei Darussalam — 70th of 103: 24.35%
• Brazil — 71st of 103: 23.85%

What this measures

Manufactures comprise commodities in SITC (Rev. 3) sections 5 (chemicals), 6 (basic manufactures), 7 (machinery and transport equipment), and 8 (miscellaneous manufactured goods), excluding division 68 (non-ferrous metals). This indicator is expressed as a percentage of merchandise exports which is comprised of goods whose economic ownership is changed between a resident and a non-resident and that are not included in the following specific categories: goods under merchanting, non-monetary gold, and parts of travel, construction, and government goods and services n.i.e.

Limitations: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.

All 30 values

Manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) in nearby economies

• Albania — 54.06% (2024)
• Andorra — 91.53% (2025)
• Armenia — 44.6% (2025)
• Austria — 77.73% (2025)
• Azerbaijan — 5.33% (2025)
• Belarus — 38.43% (2021)
• Belgium — 69.37% (2025)
• Bosnia and Herzegovina — 72.15% (2025)
• Bulgaria — 54.27% (2025)
• Croatia

More private sector & trade data for Georgia

• Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 67.69% (2025)
• Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$18.53 billion (2025)
• Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$7.29 billion (2025)
• Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 59.67% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 13.73% (2023)
• Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in East Asia & Pacific (% of total merchandise imports) — 9.44% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy, residual (% of total merchandise imports) — -0.00000000000000306% (2023)
• Merchandise imports by the reporting economy (current US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Georgia's manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports)?

29.88% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1996?

It is down 10.71 percentage points from 40.58% in 1996. The highest value was 51.66% in 2008 and the lowest 25.8% in 2020.

How does Georgia rank?

68th highest of 103 economies with data for 2025.

Is the latest change in manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) unusual for Georgia?

In 2025, Georgia's manufactures exports (% of merchandise exports) fell 3.69 percentage points on 2024 (from 33.57% to 29.88%). Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1997 to 2024), the average change was −0.25 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.99 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 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 TX.VAL.MANF.ZS.UN, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Comtrade database, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Statistics Division; World Integrated Trade Solution system (WITS); Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) 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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