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World Manufacturing Production - Quarterly Report (Q4 2023)

Author(s): UNIDO Statistics
Published on: Tuesday, 12 Mar 2024

See also the latest Monthly Infographic

Each quarter, UNIDO Statistics publishes this report with the most recent growth trends in manufacturing production across country groups and major sectors. The report summarizes officia...Read more...

World Manufacturing Production - Monthly Infographic (December 2023)

Author(s): UNIDO Statistics
Published on: Monday, 11 Mar 2024

See also the Quarterly Report

UNIDO Statistics publishes timely monthly reports providing the most recent trends of world manufacturing production. The information is based on official indices of industrial production (IIPs)...Read more...

International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2023 (Book)

Published on: Tuesday, 12 Dec 2023

The 29th edition of the International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics describes the performance of industrial sectors with the most recent data available. Through dedicated chapters on the manufacturing sector and the combined mining and utilities sector, it spotlights current trends in response to various crises and explores the impact on spe...Read more...

Statistical Indicators of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization: Biennial Progress Report 2023 (Report)

Published on: Thursday, 14 Sep 2023

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 aims to build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. Industrial development plays a pivotal role in achieving this and all other SDGs. The 2023 edition of UNIDO SDG 9 Progress Report provides a comprehensive overview of global and regional trends in industrial d...Read more...

Progress report on the implementation of SDG 9 in Latin America and the Caribbean (Report)

Author(s): UNIDO
Published on: Monday, 31 Oct 2022

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 9 aims to build resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation. With manufacturing at its core, is key to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Manufacturing plays a fundamental role in supporting resilience and driving shared prosperity. The indu...Read more...

International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2022 (Book)

Published on: Monday, 10 Oct 2022

Looking at the latest available data, two and a half years after the onset of COVID-19, how did industrial sectors fare during the pandemic? Which regions and industries were most impacted, and which ones emerged stronger? Which of the ongoing industrial megatrends accelerated? What new trends are arising in the post-pandemic industrial landscap...Read more...

Statistical Indicators of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization: Biennial Progress Report 2021 (Report)

Published on: Monday, 20 Sep 2021

The 2021 edition of the report on Statistical Indicators of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization (SDG Report) provides an analysis of global progress towards inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) in the frame of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The report is primarily based on the six SDG-9 ind...Read more...

Modernizing products and services of industrial statistics (Collection)

Author(s): UNIDO STAT
Published on: Saturday, 01 May 2021

This publication sheds light on the dedicated efforts to achieve these ambitions through a compilation of papers that on the one hand exemplifies data collection and processing methods and approaches to the modernization hereof. Some papers, on the other hand, offer economic analyses of national industrial statistics, underlining the importance ...Read more...

Competitive Industrial Performance Report 2020 (Report)

Author(s): N. Correa, V. Todorov
Published on: Wednesday, 28 Apr 2021

The 2020 edition of the CIP report provides a global overview of the competitiveness of countries’ industrial performance around the world, by ranking 152 countries using a composite index based on three dimensions:
1) the capacity to produce and export manufactured goods;
2) technological deepening and upgrading; and
...Read more...

Value added in industrial statistics and national accounts (Working paper)

Author(s): Martin Haitzmann and Valentin Todorov
Published on: Friday, 27 Nov 2020

UNIDO compiles and provides value added estimates on total manufacturing in its
databases and publications, which are generally derived from two different sources.
On the one hand, detailed structural business statistics data in industrial statistics
(commonly based on surveys and censuses) provide figures on the value ...Read more...

Seasonal adjustment of IIP (Methodological note)

Author(s): UNIDO STAT
Published on: Thursday, 05 Nov 2020

Sub-annual macroeconomic statistics today are a key tool for economic policymaking, business cycle analysis and forecasting. However, these statistics are often influenced by seasonal fluctuations as well as calendar and trending day effects, which can cover relevant short- and long-term movements of the time series and obscure a ...Read more...

World Manufacturing Production (Methodological Note) (Note)

Author(s): UNIDO STAT
Published on: Thursday, 05 Nov 2020

UNIDO Statistics publishes a series of quarterly reports about current growth trends of the world manufacturing production, which is based on the index numbers of industrial production (IIP) collected from national data sources. The main objective of this report is to provide an overview of the current growth trends of the world manufacturing pr...Read more...

SAUDI ARABIA Country Competitiveness Profile 2019 (Report)

Published on: Thursday, 10 Sep 2020

The report compares Saudi Arabia’s manufacturing competitiveness with three comparator countries: Brazil, South Africa, and Turkey. Although not the largest economy in the four countries, Saudi Arabia has the highest manufacturing productivity as reflected by the high MVA per capita and technology intensity. Its manufacturing growth is als...Read more...

A new paper on inclusiveness and green growth (Article)

Author(s): G. Halkos, J. Moll de Alba and V. Todorov
Published on: Wednesday, 26 Aug 2020

Economies' inclusive and green industrial performance: An evidence based proposed index

This paper develops and introduces a new evidence-based tool to systematically measure and benchmark the industrial performance of economies with emphas...Read more...


World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2020 (Book)

Published on: Saturday, 01 Aug 2020

This biennial publication provides a unique overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy, presenting detailed time series data on the level, structure and growth of such activities by country and sector. World Statistics on Mining...Read more...

Competitive Industrial Performance Index 2020: Country Profiles ( Report)

Author(s): Valentin Todorov
Published on: Friday, 03 Jul 2020

The CIP Index, edition 2020 draws a picture of a global manufacturing sector recovering in strength in context of a macro environment that has been shaking by economic and political insecurity and reduced trust in the benefits of globali...Read more...

Global manufacturing production hit by COVID-19 (Note)

Author(s): UNIDO STAT
Published on: Friday, 22 May 2020

Global manufacturing growth, which was already decelerating in 2019 due to trade tensions among dominant economies, is expected to further decline due to econo...Read more...

How COVID-19 is changing the world: a statistical perspective (Report)

Author(s): CCSA
Published on: Wednesday, 13 May 2020

COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. Everything has been impacted. How we live and interact with each other, how we work and communicate, how we move around and travel. Every aspect of our lives has been affected. Although the world is in lockdown, governments, epidemiologists, school principals, entrepreneurs and families around the world...Read more...

HANDBOOK ON STATISTICS FOR ECONOMIES BASED ON NATURAL RESOURCES (Handbook)

Published on: Wednesday, 01 Apr 2020

In many countries, the mining industry is rapidly developing, generating substantial revenue and resulting in significant growth in those economies based on natural resources. The mining industry’s impact on the environment is expected to increase over time. This new wave of development of the mining industry is posing new c...Read more...

How Industrial Development Matters to the Well-Being of the Population (Report)

Author(s): UNIDO Statistics
Published on: Monday, 03 Feb 2020

The report “How Industrial Development Matters to the Well-Being of the Population“ presents statistical evidence on how closely industrial development is linked to people’s living conditions and the quality of their lives. Countries’ development is often measured by their economic growth, defin...Read more...

STATISTICAL OUTLOOK ON WORLD MANUFACTURING 2019 (Report)

Author(s): UNIDO Statistics
Published on: Friday, 01 Nov 2019

The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics published by UNIDO contains a wealth of information on the level, structure and growth of world manufacturing. Data are presented at the most detailed level of 155 manufacturing industries. While these data are used by researchers to carry out in-depth economic analyses of structural transforma...Read more...

DEVELOPMENT OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES IN OMAN Preparing for the future (Report)

Published on: Wednesday, 11 Sep 2019

As the Sultanate of Oman moves towards the completion of the
Ninth Five Year Development Plan, the last stage of the
country’s long-term development plan (Vision 2020), it
contemplates whether the overall objectives were met. For a
long time, Oman has recognized the need to accelerate its
national structu...Read more...

COMPETITIVE INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE REPORT 2018 (Report)

Published on: Thursday, 18 Apr 2019

The report on competitive industrial performance (CIP Report) is a biennial publication of UNIDO based on the analysis of statistical indicators of industrial performance. For this purpose, countries are ranked by Competitive Industrial Performance Index (CIP Index), which consolidates eight indicators related to production and trade of manufact...Read more...

STATISTICAL INDICATORS OF INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIALIZATION (Report)

Published on: Thursday, 18 Apr 2019

The report on Statistical Indicators of Inclusive and Sustainable Industrialization (SDG Report) provides an analysis of global progress towards sustainable industrial development. The report is primarily based on the six SDG-9 indicators related to industrialization, for which UNIDO is designated as a custodian agency. While the first report of...Read more...

Industrial Development in CIS Countries (Analytical report)

Published on: Monday, 17 Sep 2018

Traditionally, in the CIS countries, the industry was and is a key driver of the social and economic development. This becomes especially obvious now, when these countries are getting deeper involved in the process of globalization of the world economics. The country borders become more and more transparent for the industrial activities and the ...Read more...


World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2018 (Book)

Published on: Monday, 06 Aug 2018

This biennial publication provides a unique overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy, presenting detailed time series data on the level, structure and growth of such activities by country and sector. World Statistics on Mining...Read more...

Volume II, Competitive Industrial Performance Report 2016 (Report)

Published on: Monday, 20 Nov 2017

The CIP Index, edition 2016 draws a picture of a global manufacturing sector recovering in strength in context of a macro environment that has been shaking by economic and political insecurity and reduced trust in the benefits of globali...Read more...

Volume I, Competitive Industrial Performance Report 2016 (Report)

Published on: Monday, 20 Nov 2017

The CIP Index, edition 2016 draws a picture of a global manufacturing sector recovering in strength in context of a macro environment that has been shaking by economic and political insecurity and reduced trust in the benefits of globali...Read more...

Big Data - Its Relevance and Impact on Industrial Statistics (Working Paper)

Published on: Thursday, 19 Oct 2017

Before the era of Big Data, only few alternative data sources were available, and official statistics represented the single most valuable source of data for researchers and policymakers. Emerging data sources represent a new challenge in the field of statistics but it might also be necessary to establish an additional system of legal and method...Read more...

Industrial Development in CIS (in Russian) (analytical report)

Published on: Tuesday, 01 Aug 2017

Traditionally, in the CIS countries, the industry was and is a key driver of the social and economic development. This becomes especially obvious now, when these countries are getting deeper involved in the process of globalization of the world economics. The country borders become more and more transparent for the industrial activities and the ...Read more...

Statistical indicators of inclusive and sustainable industrialization (EBook)

Published on: Wednesday, 01 Mar 2017

UNIDO is recognized as a custodian agency for maintaining database for indicators under SDG 9, monitoring the the progress and reporting to Inter-Agency and Expert Group on SDG indicators (IAEG-SDG). The publication presents the source and methods of compiling these indicators and describe the baseline scenario with currently available data.

...Read more...

International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2017 (Book)

Published on: Thursday, 23 Feb 2017


The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is one of UNIDO’s major statistical publications. It presents detailed, country-specific, business structure statistics. The Yearbook presents the annual figures on global manufacturing growth and structure. More current estimates are presented ...Read more...


World Statistics on Mining and Utilities 2016 (Book)

Published on: Monday, 01 Aug 2016


This biennial publication provides a unique overview of the role of mining and utility activities in the world economy, presenting detailed time series data on the level, structure and growth of such activities by country and sector. World Statistics on Mining and Utilities offers country level data on the nu...Read more...

Development of the Manufacturing Industries of Oman: Preparing for the Future (Analytical Report)

Published on: Friday, 01 Jul 2016


Oman’s economy, like those of its neighbours in the Gulf region, is strongly dependent on hydrocarbon revenues and foreign labor. The manufacturing sector of Oman has a crucial role to play in the structural transformation of the oil-dependent economy towards a sustainable economy that is competitive in...Read more...


International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics 2016 (Book)

Published on: Tuesday, 01 Mar 2016


The International Yearbook of Industrial Statistics is a flagship publication of UNIDO and provides economists, planners, policymakers and business people with worldwide statistics on the current performance and trends in the manufacturing sector.

The Yearbook is designe...Read more...

Annual Industrial Survey 2013, Oman (Statistical Report)

Published on: Tuesday, 01 Dec 2015


Oman is a middle-income country in the Gulf region with notable oil and gas resources, a substantial trade surplus, and low inflation. As in most Gulf countries, hydrocarbons form the most important sector in Omani economy, with crude oil accounting for over 25% of GDP in real terms. This proportion is now in...Read more...

Practical Guide to Compiling the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) for CIS countries (in Russian) (Report)

Published on: Monday, 02 Nov 2015


This report represents the first Russian language version of the “International Recommendations for the Index of Industrial Production”, summarizing the methodological guidelines behind the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) by UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs). The...Read more...

Proceedings of the International Seminar on Industrial Statistics "20 years in Service of the Nations for Industrialization, Vienna 2014" (Proceedings)

Author(s): Valentin Todorov
Published on: Monday, 15 Dec 2014

In the aftermath of the prolonged global economic recession, new policies to foster sustainable industrialization have been called for. In turn, the demand for statistical indicators and policy advisory services to accelerate industrial development and competitiveness while simultaneously promoting social prosperity an...Read more...

Ulaanbaatar City Group on Statistics for Economies Based on Natural Resources (Proceedings)

Published on: Monday, 01 Dec 2014


As the world’s natural resources continue to decay and the environmental challenges deepen, the need to develop viable solutions for resource-efficient industrial production becomes increasingly critical if the high and rising global demand for energy is to be met. Moreover, with the changing global geogr...Read more...

Statistical Business register and its use in industrial statistics (in Russian) (Report)

Published on: Saturday, 15 Nov 2014


The statistical register of business units plays a crucial role in economic statistics in general and in industrial statistics in particular. It not only serves as a framework for regular data collection but also provides important information on business demography. The development of a such a register is im...Read more...

Development of Manufacturing Industries in Nepal (Report)

Published on: Saturday, 01 Nov 2014


Since 1964/65, Nepal’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has conducted the so-called Census of Manufacturing Establishments (CMEs) with five years interval to monitor and evaluate the performance of the country’s manufacturing sector. The census covers all manufacturing establishments located wit...Read more...


World Manufacturing Production (Moved)

Published on: Tuesday, 01 Jan 2013
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