Namibia's food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) was 62.2% in 2023, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 21.69 percentage points from 40.52% in 2013.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 62.2% | 2023 |
| Five years earlier | 55.29% | 2018 |
| Ten years earlier | 40.52% | 2013 |
| Highest | 76.58% | 1994 |
| Lowest | 33.38% | 2007 |
| Average since 2014 | 53% | 2014–2023 |
| First recorded | 76.58% | 1994 |
What the numbers say
In 2023, Namibia's food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) rose 4.22 percentage points on 2022 (from 57.99% to 62.2%).
Across the 15 yearly changes before that (2008 to 2022), the average change was +1.64 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.53 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.7 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 11.3 percentage points in 2016 and the biggest yearly fall was 1.36 percentage points in 2011. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2014 to 2023 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.15 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 84% 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.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 69.31% for 2026. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2021 to 2023 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 1.29%, against 3.85% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2023, Namibia had the 3rd highest value of the 64 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 Namibia in the 2023 ranking
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 18 values
| Year | Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing) |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 62.2 |
| 2022 | 57.99 |
| 2021 | 58.69 |
| 2020 | 55.78 |
| 2019 | 53.99 |
| 2018 | 55.29 |
| 2017 | 52.16 |
| 2016 | 52.16 |
| 2015 | 40.86 |
| 2014 | 40.86 |
| 2013 |
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 Namibia
- Adjusted savings, education expenditure (% of GNI) — 8.92% (2021)
- Adjusted savings, net forest depletion (current US$) — US$106.2 million (2021)
- Adjusted savings, mineral depletion (current US$) — US$262.77 million (2021)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current US$) — US$3.36 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (current LCU) — 60.11 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2015 US$) — US$3.51 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant LCU) — 45.2 billion (2025)
- General government final consumption expenditure (% of GDP) — 22.28% (2025)
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Questions people ask
- What is Namibia's food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing)?
- 62.2% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1994?
- It is down 14.37 percentage points from 76.58% in 1994. The highest value was 76.58% in 1994 and the lowest 33.38% in 2007.
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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