United Arab Emirates: Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2023, United Arab Emirates' machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) fell 1.48 percentage points on 2022 (from 13.64% to 12.16%).

Across the 11 yearly changes before that (1978 to 2022), the average change was +0.07 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.31 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 1.63 percentage points in 2016 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.03 percentage points in 2018. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 5% 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 2023, United Arab Emirates had the 43rd highest value of the 63 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 United Arab Emirates in the 2023 ranking

• Cyprus — 39th of 63: 13.81%
• Kazakhstan — 40th of 63: 13.63%
• Moldova — 41st of 63: 13.49%
• Switzerland — 43rd of 63: 11.09%
• Latvia — 44th of 63: 10.79%
• Uzbekistan — 45th of 63: 9.62%

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 16 values

Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) in nearby economies

• Algeria — 0.6% (2017)
• Bahrain — 5.76% (2018)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — 4.08% (2022)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 7.83% (2022)
• Iraq — 2.56% (2022)
• Israel — 47% (2021)
• Jordan — 2.96% (2022)
• Kuwait — 4.52% (2021)
• Malta

More economic policy & debt data for United Arab Emirates

• Foreign direct investment, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — US$48.24 billion (2025)
• Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP) — 8.26% (2024)
• GDP (current US$) — US$552.33 billion (2024)
• GDP (current LCU) — 2.03 trillion (2024)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$457.09 billion (2024)
• GDP (constant LCU) — 1.78 trillion (2024)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$50,274 (2024)
• GDP per capita (current LCU) — 184,629 (2024)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$41,605 (2024)
• GDP per capita (constant LCU)

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Questions people ask

What is United Arab Emirates's machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing)?

12.16% in 2023, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1977?

It is up 3.06 percentage points from 9.1% in 1977. The highest value was 15.94% in 2020 and the lowest 0.24% in 1981.

How does United Arab Emirates rank?

43rd highest of 63 economies with data for 2023.

Is the latest change in machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) unusual for United Arab Emirates?

In 2023, United Arab Emirates' machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing) fell 1.48 percentage points on 2022 (from 13.64% to 12.16%). Across the 11 yearly changes before that (1978 to 2022), the average change was +0.07 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 1.31 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.2 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.

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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