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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scorecard-how-the-us-compares-to-18-other-nations/

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader