Kuwait: Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2021, Kuwait's other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 0 percentage points on 2020 (from 61.84% to 61.84%).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2020), the average change was −0.91 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.06 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above 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 19.04 percentage points in 1974 and the biggest yearly fall was 19.53 percentage points in 1991. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2012 to 2021 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.7 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 31% 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 Kuwait in the 2021 ranking

• West Bank and Gaza — 1st of 6: 62.22%
• Thailand — 3rd of 6: 49.98%
• Kosovo — 4th of 6: 39.77%
• Israel — 5th of 6: 38.66%

What this measures

Other manufacturing, a residual, covers wood and related products (ISIC Rev. 3 division 20), paper and related products (ISIC Rev. 3 divisions 21 and 22), petroleum and related products (ISIC Rev. 3 division 23), basic metals and mineral products (ISIC Rev. 3 division27), fabricated metal products and professional goods (ISIC Rev. 3 division 28), and other industries (ISIC Rev. 3 divisions 25, 26, 31, 33, 36, and 37). Includes unallocated data. When data for textiles, machinery, or chemicals are shown as not available, they are included in other manufacturing. 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 55 values

Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 86.1% (2017)
• Bahrain — 71.61% (2018)
• Djibouti — 22.01% (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 39.57% (2022)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 52.68% (2022)
• Iraq — 62.3% (2022)
• Israel — 38.66% (2021)
• Jordan — 47.44% (2022)
• Lebanon — 41.22% (2020)

More economic policy & debt data for Kuwait

• Total reserves, including gold (current US$) — US$51.74 billion (2025)
• Total reserves, excluding gold (current US$) — US$40.65 billion (2025)
• GDP (current US$) — US$157.21 billion (2025)
• GDP (current LCU) — 48.18 billion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$32,312 (2025)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 9,902 (2025)
• GNI (current US$) — US$193.99 billion (2024)
• GNI (current LCU) — 59.49 billion (2024)
• GNI per capita (current LCU) — 12,148 (2024)
• General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$41.5 billion (2024)

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Questions people ask

What is Kuwait's other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing)?

61.84% in 2021, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1967?

It is down 28.58 percentage points from 90.42% in 1967. The highest value was 90.42% in 1967 and the lowest 55.85% in 2017.

Is the latest change in other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) unusual for Kuwait?

In 2021, Kuwait's other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 0 percentage points on 2020 (from 61.84% to 61.84%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2020), the average change was −0.91 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.06 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Where does this data come from?

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.MNF.OTHR.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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