Manufacturing Value Added as % of GDP, by sector and country (1990–2020)
China's accession to the WTO in December 2001 triggered the largest structural shift in global manufacturing since the Industrial Revolution. Western nations saw rapid deindustrialization while East Asian economies absorbed their manufacturing capacity. Each row is a country, each column a year. Color intensity shows manufacturing value added as a share of GDP for that sector.
Data: UN Comtrade, World Bank WDI, UNIDO INDSTAT. Visualization format after WSJ / Observable.