Manufacturing Value Added in Billions USD, by sector and country (1990–2020)
The same structural shift viewed in absolute dollar terms rather than GDP share. China's manufacturing value added surpassed the entire G7 combined in several sectors by the mid-2010s. A log-scale color map captures the dramatic range — from Bangladesh's $0.5B textiles to China's $600B+ electronics output.
Data: UN Comtrade, World Bank WDI, UNIDO INDSTAT. Visualization format after WSJ / Observable.