{"version":1,"asset_type":"statistical_series","data_type":"time_series","slug":"cn-manufacturing-value-added-gdp","url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/cn-manufacturing-value-added-gdp","html_url":"https://apiardata.com/statistics/cn-manufacturing-value-added-gdp/","title":"China Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP) (2025)","description":"China's manufacturing value added fell to 24.7% of GDP in 2025 (World Bank), down from a 32% peak in 2006, across the 2004–2025 series.","domain":"macro","category":"Economy & Macro","keywords":["Economy & Macro","World Bank","China","2025"],"publisher":"World Bank","frequency":"Annual","geography":"China","temporal_coverage":"2004/2025","unit":"% of GDP","last_updated":"2026-07-25","last_updated_text":"25 July 2026","data_as_of":"2025","variable_measured":"China Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP)","license":"https://apiardata.com/data-license","is_accessible_for_free":true,"sources":[{"name":"World Bank","url":"https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.ZS?locations=CN"}],"meta":[{"label":"Frequency","value":"Annual"},{"label":"Coverage","value":"2004–2025"},{"label":"Observations","value":"22"},{"label":"Geography","value":"China"},{"label":"Last updated","value":"25 July 2026"}],"kpis":[{"label":"China (2025)","value":"24.7","unit":"% of GDP","trend":{"direction":"down","value":"-0.1pp YoY"}},{"label":"YoY Change","value":"-0.1pp","unit":"percentage points"},{"label":"Trend","value":"down","unit":""},{"label":"Series length","value":"22","unit":"years of data"}],"series":[{"key":"value","label":"China Manufacturing Value Added (% of GDP)"}],"observation_count":22,"observations":[{"period":"2004","value":31.5101594673259},{"period":"2005","value":31.6564574964127},{"period":"2006","value":31.9945213596647},{"period":"2007","value":31.9005932714931},{"period":"2008","value":31.6169791482305},{"period":"2009","value":31.0611528606438},{"period":"2010","value":31.0748956423241},{"period":"2011","value":31.5623565182378},{"period":"2012","value":31.0143036500115},{"period":"2013","value":30.1275021518721},{"period":"2014","value":29.8300397890826},{"period":"2015","value":28.3889960582852},{"period":"2016","value":27.5237594259275},{"period":"2017","value":27.5998559245177},{"period":"2018","value":27.34341880328},{"period":"2019","value":26.2594662949297},{"period":"2020","value":25.5809804288007},{"period":"2021","value":26.621932558827},{"period":"2022","value":25.9806695043084},{"period":"2023","value":25.0144267929987},{"period":"2024","value":24.8415841892631},{"period":"2025","value":24.7344421687689}],"table":{"columns":[{"key":"year","label":"Year"},{"key":"value","label":"% of GDP"},{"key":"yoyChange","label":"YoY Change"}],"rows":[{"year":"2025","value":"24.7","yoyChange":"-0.1pp"},{"year":"2024","value":"24.8","yoyChange":"-0.2pp"},{"year":"2023","value":"25.0","yoyChange":"-1.0pp"},{"year":"2022","value":"26.0","yoyChange":"-0.6pp"},{"year":"2021","value":"26.6","yoyChange":"+1.0pp"},{"year":"2020","value":"25.6","yoyChange":"-0.7pp"},{"year":"2019","value":"26.3","yoyChange":"-1pp"},{"year":"2018","value":"27.3","yoyChange":"-0.3pp"},{"year":"2017","value":"27.6","yoyChange":"+0.1pp"},{"year":"2016","value":"27.5","yoyChange":"-0.9pp"},{"year":"2015","value":"28.4","yoyChange":"-1.4pp"},{"year":"2014","value":"29.8","yoyChange":"-0.3pp"},{"year":"2013","value":"30.1","yoyChange":"-0.9pp"},{"year":"2012","value":"31.0","yoyChange":"-0.6pp"},{"year":"2011","value":"31.6","yoyChange":"+0.5pp"},{"year":"2010","value":"31.1","yoyChange":"unchanged"},{"year":"2009","value":"31.1","yoyChange":"-0.5pp"},{"year":"2008","value":"31.6","yoyChange":"-0.3pp"},{"year":"2007","value":"31.9","yoyChange":"-0.1pp"},{"year":"2006","value":"32.0","yoyChange":"+0.3pp"}]},"qa":[{"question":"What was China's manufacturing value added as a percentage of GDP in 2024?","answer":"China's manufacturing value added was 24.8% of GDP in 2024, a decline of 0.2 percentage points from 25.0% in 2023. That figure comes from the World Bank series NV.IND.MANF.ZS, which measures manufacturing value added (output minus intermediate inputs) as a share of gross domestic product. The 2024 reading was the third consecutive annual decline in the series, part of a longer downward drift that has run, with one interruption in 2021, since the ratio peaked at 32.0% in 2006. The most current figure in this dataset covers 2025, when the share fell further to 24.7%."},{"question":"Is this the same as China's share of world manufacturing output?","answer":"No. This series reports manufacturing value added as a percentage of China's own gross domestic product, published by the World Bank under series code NV.IND.MANF.ZS. China's share of global manufacturing output is a different measure, a cross-country comparison also published by bodies such as UNIDO, and it typically uses different valuation and aggregation methodology than a single-country GDP-share figure. A country can hold a large and growing share of world manufacturing output while its own manufacturing share of GDP falls, because the domestic ratio depends on how fast other sectors of that economy are growing, not on global market share. The two figures answer different questions and should not be substituted for one another."},{"question":"What was the highest manufacturing share of GDP China has recorded, and when?","answer":"China's manufacturing value added as a share of GDP peaked at 32.0% in 2006, the highest point in the 2004–2025 series. By 2025 it had fallen to 24.7%, a decline of 7.3 percentage points. The ratio held roughly steady through the mid-to-late 2000s before beginning a sustained descent from 2012 onward, interrupted only once, by a 1.0 percentage point rise in 2021. It is among the larger structural shifts this dataset tracks across major economies, and it has unfolded steadily rather than in a single sharp break."},{"question":"Does this dataset report manufacturing value added in current US dollars?","answer":"No. This page reports manufacturing value added as a percentage of GDP, sourced from the World Bank (series NV.IND.MANF.ZS), not manufacturing value added in current US dollars. The two are related but move differently: a percentage-of-GDP figure can fall even while the underlying dollar value of manufacturing output rises, if the rest of the economy is growing faster. This dataset does not currently include the current-dollar series, so it cannot be used to size China's manufacturing sector in absolute terms — only to track its weight relative to the rest of the Chinese economy."},{"question":"Does a falling manufacturing share of GDP mean China's manufacturing output is shrinking?","answer":"Not necessarily. As an economy grows richer, services and other sectors typically expand faster than manufacturing, which mechanically pulls manufacturing's share of GDP down even when manufacturing output keeps rising in absolute terms. China's ratio has fallen from 32.0% in 2006 to 24.7% in 2025, a trajectory that lines up with the period in which policymakers have stated a goal of rebalancing the economy toward consumption and services. Reading the percentage alone, without a measure of the underlying output level, risks the wrong conclusion — the ratio is a measure of economic composition, not of industrial output on its own."},{"question":"How has China's manufacturing share of GDP changed over the past five years?","answer":"The ratio has fallen in four of the last five years: down 0.6 percentage points in 2022, 1.0 point in 2023, 0.2 points in 2024, and 0.1 points in 2025. The sole exception was 2021, when the share rose 1.0 percentage point before resuming its decline the following year. Before that, the ratio held broadly flat through the 2000s, moving from 31.5% in 2004 to 31.6% in 2011, then began a steadier multi-year decline from 2012 onward. The recent pace of decline, roughly 0.1 to 1.0 percentage points a year, is milder than the sharper single-year moves seen earlier in the 2010s, such as the 1.4 point drop in 2015."},{"question":"How does China's manufacturing share of GDP in the 2000s compare with the post-2012 period?","answer":"China's manufacturing value added held in a narrow band of roughly 31% to 32% of GDP from 2004 through 2011, moving from 31.5% at the start of the series to 31.6% in 2011 with a high of 32.0% in 2006. From 2012 the ratio began a more persistent decline, falling from 31.0% that year to 24.7% by 2025 — a drop of 6.3 percentage points over 13 years. The shift from a flat early period to a sustained decline broadly coincides with China's post-2012 push to rebalance growth away from investment and exports and toward domestic consumption and services."}]}