Thursday, May 16, 2019

Manufacturing Output 1970-2015


CHANGES IN COUNTRY MANUFACTURING OUTPUT, 1970-2015

Most countries have been fairly stable in their manufacturing output over the past few decades, but there have been some shifts since 1970. For example, in 1970, the top countries were the United States, USSR, Japan, Germany, China, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Canada (see Table 4). However, by 2015, the leaders had shifted to China, the United States, Japan, Germany, South Korea, India, Italy, the United Kingdom, and France.

Table 4: Changes in country rank ordering on manufacturing output, 1970-2015

Table 4: Changes in country rank ordering on manufacturing output 1970 to 2015:

The US ranked 1st from 1970 to 2009. The US ranked 2nd behind China from 2010 to 2015.

Russia ranked 2nd in 1970, dropped to 7th in 1990 and dropped again to 16th in 2000.

Japan ranked 3rd from 1970 to 1990 and moved to 2nd in 1990 and dropped back to 3rd from 2007 to 2015.

Germany ranked 4th from 1970 to 1990 and moved up to 3rd from 1990 to 2005 and moved back to 4th from 2005 to 2015.

China ranked 5th from 1970 to 1990 and moved down to 8th in 1990, but moved up to 4th in 2000, moved up to 3rd in 2005, 2ne in 2007 and 1st in 2010.

The UK ranked 6th in 1970, bounced around between 5th and 10th and ended up 9th in 2015.

France ranked 7th in 1970, bounced around between 5th and 9th and ended up at 8th in 2015.

Italy ranked 8th in 1970, bounced around between 5th and 7th and ended up at 7th in 2015.

Canada ranked 9th in 1970, bounced around between 9th and 14th and ended up at 13th in 2015.

Spain ranked 10th in 1970, bounced around between 9th and 15th and ended up at 14th in 2015

Table 4: Changes in country rank ordering on manufacturing output 1970 to 2015:

Taiwan ranked 11th in 1970, bounced around between 14th and 17th after 1980 and ended up at 16th in 2015

India ranked 12th in 1970, bounced around between 6th and 14th and ended up at 6th in 2015.

Brazil ranked 13th in 1970, bounced between 7th and 14th and ended up at 12th in 2015.

Mexico ranked 14th in 1970, bounced between 11th and 13th and ended up at 10th in 2015.

Switzerland ranked 15th in 1970, bounced between 15th and 18th and ended up at 17th in 2015.

Turkey ranked 16th in 1970, bounced between 15th and 18th and ended up at 18th in 2015.

South Korea ranked 17th in 1970, moved up to 12th in 1990, moved up to 8th in 2000 and ended up 5th in 2015.

Thailand ranked 18th in 1970, moved to 19th in 1980 and ended up at 19th in 2015.

Indonesia ranked 19th in 1970,  moved to 18th in 1980, 15th in 2006 and ended up at 13th in 2015.

During this time period, one nation that improved considerably is India. It raised its output ranking from 14th in 1990 to sixth in 2015. In contrast, Spain dropped in manufacturing performance from ninth in 2005 to 14th in 2015. The same is true for Russia, as it was ranked second in manufacturing output in 1980 but now has dropped to 15th in the world.


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader 

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