Zambia's textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) was 3.23% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 9.13 percentage points from 12.36% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3.23% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 1.08% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 12.36% | 2014 |
| Highest | 13.59% | 2015 |
| Lowest | 1.04% | 2016 |
| Average since 2015 | 3.26% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 3.96% | 1963 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Zambia's textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) fell 0.29 percentage points on 2023 (from 3.52% to 3.23%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1965 to 2023), the average change was −0.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.85 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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 4.09 percentage points in 1966 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.55 percentage points in 2016. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 8% 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 2024, Zambia had the 10th highest value of the 17 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 Zambia in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Textiles and clothing refers to industries in ISIC (rev. 3) divisions 17-19 and includes manufacturing of textiles, apparel, dyeing of fur, and tanning of leather. 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 36 values
| Year | Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.23 |
| 2023 | 3.52 |
| 2022 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 1.44 |
| 2019 | 1.08 |
| 2018 | 1.29 |
| 2017 | 1.06 |
| 2016 | 1.04 |
| 2015 | 13.59 |
| 2014 |
Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) in nearby economies
- Botswana — 4.78% (2023)
- Burundi — 0.61% (2015)
- Cameroon — 2.85% (2018)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 3.38% (2022)
- Ethiopia — 10.03% (2015)
- Ghana — 6.39% (2015)
- Kenya — 8.98% (2023)
- Lesotho — 88.13% (2024)
- Madagascar — 11.61% (2024)
More economic policy & debt data for Zambia
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$) — US$1.19 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current LCU) — 29.79 billion (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (% of GDP) — 4.11% (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current US$) — US$2.53 billion (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (current LCU) — 63.49 billion (2025)
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP) — 8.75% (2025)
- Industry, including construction, value added (current US$) — US$10.2 billion (2025)
- Industry, including construction, value added (current LCU) — 256.39 billion (2025)
- Industry, including construction, value added (% of GDP)
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Questions people ask
- What is Zambia's textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing)?
- 3.23% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1963?
- It is down 0.73 percentage points from 3.96% in 1963. The highest value was 13.59% in 2015 and the lowest 1.04% in 2016.
- How does Zambia rank?
- 10th highest of 17 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) unusual for Zambia?
- In 2024, Zambia's textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing) fell 0.29 percentage points on 2023 (from 3.52% to 3.23%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1965 to 2023), the average change was −0.33 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 2.85 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 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.TXTL.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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