Mali: Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2022, Mali's food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 1.82 percentage points on 2021 (from 75.5% to 77.32%).

Across the 20 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2021), the average change was +0.35 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.63 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 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 12.69 percentage points in 2000 and the biggest yearly fall was 12 percentage points in 2006. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2013 to 2022 the straight-line trend is upward, about 3.51 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 52% of the movement over 9 observed years.

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

How it compares

In 2022, Mali had the 1st highest value of the 19 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 Mali in the 2022 ranking

• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 2nd of 19: 63.51%
• Tanzania — 3rd of 19: 57.79%
• Montenegro — 4th of 19: 37.06%

What this measures

Manufacturing of food, beverages, and tobacco includes industries classified in ISIC (Rev. 3) divisions 15 and 16. 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 23 values

Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) in nearby economies

• Botswana — 30.27% (2023)
• Burundi — 87.63% (2015)
• Cameroon — 52.61% (2024)
• Congo, Dem. Rep. — 63.51% (2022)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 44.36% (2024)
• Ethiopia — 36.62% (2015)
• Ghana — 34.58% (2015)
• Guinea-Bissau — 54.88% (2024)
• Kenya

More economic policy & debt data for Mali

• Grants, excluding technical cooperation (BoP, current US$) — US$1.12 billion (2023)
• Technical cooperation grants (BoP, current US$) — US$119.74 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, European Union institutions (current US$) — US$131.69 million (2023)
• Net bilateral aid flows from DAC donors, Total (current US$) — US$873.86 million (2023)
• Net official development assistance and official aid received (current US$) — US$1.29 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance and official aid received (constant 2023 US$) — US$1.29 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance received (current US$) — US$1.29 billion (2023)
• Net official development assistance received (constant 2023 US$)

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Questions people ask

What is Mali's food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing)?

77.32% in 2022, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1999?

It is up 49.47 percentage points from 27.86% in 1999. The highest value was 77.32% in 2022 and the lowest 19.01% in 2012.

How does Mali rank?

1st highest of 19 economies with data for 2022.

Is the latest change in food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) unusual for Mali?

In 2022, Mali's food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 1.82 percentage points on 2021 (from 75.5% to 77.32%). Across the 20 yearly changes before that (2000 to 2021), the average change was +0.35 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.63 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations above 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.FBTO.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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