Industry (including construction), value added per worker (constant 2015 US$) by country

Industry (including construction) corresponds to ISIC (Rev.4) divisions 05-43. It is comprised of mining, manufacturing, construction, electricity, water, and gas industries. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value...

Countries reporting
176
Highest
475,317 constant 2015 US$
Ireland
Lowest
1,785 constant 2015 US$
Syria
Median
17,875 constant 2015 US$
Years covered
35
1991–2025
Data points
7,148

What the numbers show

Industry (including construction), value added per worker (constant 2015 US$) is currently reported for 176 countries. The highest value is 475,317 constant 2015 US$ in Ireland; the lowest is 1,785 constant 2015 US$ in Syria.

The median across all reporting countries is 17,875 constant 2015 US$, and the mean is 39,587 constant 2015 US$.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 266.

Over the past decade 105 countries rose and 71 fell. The largest increase was in Guyana (up 1,646.2%), and the largest decrease in South Sudan (down 68.5%).

Industry (including construction), value added per worker: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Ireland 475,317 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 52.7% volatile
2 Guyana 289,841 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 1,646.2% volatile
3 Luxembourg 263,019 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 27.4% rising
4 Norway 259,146 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 13.6% rising
5 Switzerland 241,680 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 31.2% rising
6 Singapore 220,088 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 64.5% volatile
7 Brunei 175,141 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 25.5% falling
8 Denmark 168,700 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 50.9% rising
9 Sweden 140,109 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 9.9% rising
10 Australia 131,209 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 3.3% rising
11 Netherlands 121,110 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 29.1% rising
12 Qatar 117,226 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 20.1% falling
13 Israel 112,496 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 21.2% rising
14 Canada 106,575 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 1.7% rising
15 Iceland 102,710 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 1.0% rising
16 United Kingdom 101,730 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 11.5% rising
17 Finland 100,919 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 4.2% rising
18 South Korea 97,124 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 21.3% rising
19 Belgium 96,482 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 5.3% rising
20 Austria 93,010 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 4.0% rising
21 Kuwait 88,515 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 27.1% falling
22 United Arab Emirates 83,992 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 11.1% falling
23 Japan 83,602 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 2.8% rising
24 Saudi Arabia 81,510 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 12.4% falling
25 Germany 77,662 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 1.4% rising
26 Libya 75,545 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 47.8% falling
27 France 75,006 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 1.5% rising
28 Italy 69,791 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 10.4% rising
29 New Zealand 69,596 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 7.5% rising
30 Gabon 63,407 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 29.8% volatile
31 Spain 61,432 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 6.4% rising
32 Greece 55,802 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 6.2% rising
33 Equatorial Guinea 53,308 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 61.5% falling
34 Panama 52,194 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 10.9% rising
35 Djibouti 51,907 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 62.0% rising
36 Slovenia 51,706 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 13.7% rising
37 South Sudan 50,635 constant 2015 US$ 2015 down 68.5% falling
38 Uruguay 50,212 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 2.5% rising
39 Turkmenistan 48,956 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 30.7% rising
40 Kazakhstan 47,342 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 49.8% rising
41 Trinidad and Tobago 47,036 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 11.5% rising
42 Bahrain 46,425 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 1.4% falling
43 Macao 45,183 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 18.7% falling
44 Oman 43,503 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 14.9% volatile
45 Costa Rica 41,696 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 48.0% rising
46 Hong Kong 41,254 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 2.5% rising
47 Lithuania 40,860 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 22.2% rising
48 Bahamas 38,011 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 33.2% rising
49 Portugal 37,917 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 7.1% rising
50 Turkey 36,404 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 21.1% rising
51 Jordan 35,560 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 30.0% rising
52 Czechia 35,492 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 7.3% rising
53 Chile 35,055 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 2.7% rising
54 Malta 35,011 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 2.6% rising
55 Poland 34,220 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 19.6% rising
56 Malaysia 33,774 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 17.4% rising
57 Croatia 33,595 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 34.5% rising
58 Botswana 33,365 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 22.2% flat
59 Barbados 33,304 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 13.1% flat
60 Angola 32,292 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 41.6% flat
61 China 31,196 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 50.7% volatile
62 Papua New Guinea 30,753 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 5.6% rising
63 Slovakia 29,994 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 1.6% rising
64 Estonia 29,880 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 10.8% rising
65 Cyprus 29,294 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 30.9% rising
66 Argentina 29,216 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 15.2% rising
67 Azerbaijan 29,020 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 23.6% rising
68 Latvia 28,451 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 17.2% rising
69 Dominican Republic 27,618 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 16.4% rising
70 Laos 27,418 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 15.0% rising
71 Iraq 27,075 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 20.7% rising
72 Russia 26,871 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 27.4% rising
73 Uzbekistan 26,715 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 207.1% volatile
74 Paraguay 26,212 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 15.2% flat
75 Mexico 25,952 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 16.5% falling
76 Hungary 23,952 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 3.5% rising
77 Eswatini 23,767 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 15.5% rising
78 Peru 22,422 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 7.8% rising
79 Romania 21,914 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 1.5% rising
80 Mauritius 21,897 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 36.0% rising
81 Namibia 20,237 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 20.3% falling
82 Algeria 19,933 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 8.2% falling
83 Iran 19,618 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 18.0% rising
84 South Africa 19,175 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 7.7% rising
85 Ecuador 18,610 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 9.0% rising
86 Suriname 18,481 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 29.5% falling
87 Tajikistan 18,463 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 158.6% volatile
88 Cuba 18,039 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 14.0% rising
89 Brazil 17,712 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 6.6% rising
90 Serbia 17,120 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 3.9% rising
91 Thailand 17,099 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 11.1% rising
92 Saint Lucia 16,589 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 6.0% rising
93 Lebanon 16,370 constant 2015 US$ 2023 down 20.1% rising
94 Colombia 16,170 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 16.9% rising
95 Armenia 16,033 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 13.5% rising
96 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 15,942 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 20.5% rising
97 Albania 15,865 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 9.4% rising
98 Fiji 15,781 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 0.6% rising
99 Georgia 15,723 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 9.5% rising
100 Bhutan 15,465 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 40.8% rising
101 Egypt 15,401 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 13.3% rising
102 Belize 15,129 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 4.8% falling
103 Belarus 15,126 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 26.6% rising
104 Indonesia 15,079 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 17.6% rising
105 Mongolia 15,060 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 3.4% rising
106 Montenegro 14,912 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 1.2% rising
107 Yemen 14,807 constant 2015 US$ 2018 down 62.7% falling
108 Bulgaria 14,642 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 7.7% rising
109 Tonga 14,059 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 93.0% rising
110 Philippines 13,432 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 2.3% rising
111 Morocco 12,929 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 8.1% rising
112 Maldives 12,692 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 9.0% rising
113 Sri Lanka 12,681 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 5.2% rising
114 Samoa 12,586 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 13.5% rising
115 Vanuatu 12,539 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 52.1% rising
116 North Macedonia 12,376 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 2.3% rising
117 Zambia 12,119 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 18.0% falling
118 Bosnia and Herzegovina 11,718 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 5.5% rising
119 Congo 11,702 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 26.7% falling
120 Guatemala 11,185 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 10.3% rising
121 Democratic Republic of Congo 11,166 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 59.0% rising
122 El Salvador 11,005 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 2.5% rising
123 Jamaica 10,880 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 19.3% falling
124 Cote d'Ivoire 10,620 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 6.2% rising
125 Moldova 10,202 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 4.3% rising
126 Zimbabwe 10,130 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 21.8% falling
127 Ghana 9,774 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 25.3% rising
128 Chad 9,705 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 28.4% falling
129 Mauritania 9,354 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 23.0% falling
130 Solomon Islands 9,233 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 19.0% rising
131 Tunisia 9,198 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 7.6% falling
132 Guinea 9,185 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 89.4% falling
133 Uganda 8,901 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 1.0% volatile
134 Ethiopia 8,832 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 210.5% volatile
135 Bangladesh 8,724 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 102.0% volatile
136 Nicaragua 8,598 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 20.1% rising
137 Tanzania 8,482 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 36.5% rising
138 Palestine 8,226 constant 2015 US$ 2022 down 40.1% flat
139 Vietnam 8,201 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 22.0% rising
140 Honduras 7,505 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 19.7% rising
141 Cameroon 6,682 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 4.7% falling
142 India 6,670 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 33.8% rising
143 Myanmar 6,622 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 30.3% volatile
144 Bolivia 6,564 constant 2015 US$ 2024 down 8.8% rising
145 Haiti 6,499 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 35.5% falling
146 Kenya 6,435 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 0.0% rising
147 Cambodia 6,141 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 69.7% rising
148 Senegal 6,035 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 33.3% falling
149 Sierra Leone 5,815 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 26.8% rising
150 Mali 5,695 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 9.2% volatile
151 Cape Verde 5,460 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 11.6% flat
152 Sudan 5,217 constant 2015 US$ 2022 down 18.1% rising
153 East Timor 4,947 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 13.5% volatile
154 Sao Tome and Principe 4,898 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 10.5% rising
155 Ukraine 4,596 constant 2015 US$ 2021 down 13.6% falling
156 Kyrgyzstan 4,468 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 49.0% rising
157 Mozambique 4,444 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 25.6% rising
158 Nigeria 4,332 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 50.1% falling
159 Liberia 4,021 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 25.3% rising
160 Pakistan 3,835 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 4.6% rising
161 Malawi 3,807 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 4.1% rising
162 Togo 3,673 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 24.6% falling
163 Niger 3,594 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 8.7% rising
164 Guinea-Bissau 3,459 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 0.4% flat
165 Rwanda 3,403 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 9.6% rising
166 Gambia 3,162 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 22.8% rising
167 Benin 3,008 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 22.0% rising
168 Burundi 2,909 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 7.1% falling
169 Afghanistan 2,890 constant 2015 US$ 2024 up 28.6% flat
170 Comoros 2,793 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 1.7% falling
171 Lesotho 2,778 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 19.9% falling
172 Burkina Faso 2,655 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 2.7% rising
173 Nepal 2,171 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 31.8% rising
174 Central African Republic 2,137 constant 2015 US$ 2025 up 37.0% falling
175 Madagascar 1,864 constant 2015 US$ 2025 down 0.2% falling
176 Syria 1,785 constant 2015 US$ 2022 down 54.4% falling

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
Industry (including construction), value added per worker (constant 2015 US$)
Unit
constant 2015 US$
Source
World Development Indicators database, World Bank (WB)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
222 places, 7,148 data points, 1991–2025
Last refreshed

Industry (including construction) corresponds to ISIC (Rev.4) divisions 05-43. It is comprised of mining, manufacturing, construction, electricity, water, and gas industries. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. The core indicator has been divided by the number of workers in this sector to derive a measure of labor productivity. This indicator is expressed in constant prices, meaning the series has been adjusted to account for price changes over time. The reference year for this adjustment is 2015. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.