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What the World Economy Is Made Of
World GDP by sector: value added as a share of GDP, latest year, %
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World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0): gross value added by sector as a share of GDP. The U.S. shares are Palanor’s calculation from BEA GDP by Industry, because the World Bank’s U.S. series stops in 2021. Mining, construction and utilities is industry less manufacturing, and taxes less subsidies on products is the part of GDP no sector adds (with statistical adjustments); both are Palanor’s arithmetic on the World Bank shares. Each rectangle is its share’s latest published year, so they can differ by a year.
The whole world economy in one picture: services are well over half of global output, manufacturing about a seventh, farming a few percent. The split comes from national accounts gathered by the World Bank and updates each year.
Ranked, 5 items
| # | Group | Share | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Services | Services | 63.3% | 64% | 2024 |
| 2 | Manufacturing | Industry | 14.9% | 15% | 2025 |
| 3 | Mining, construction and utilities | Industry | 10.1% | 10% | 2025 |
| 4 | Taxes less subsidies on products | Taxes | 7.2% | 7.2% | 2024 |
| 5 | Agriculture, forestry and fishing | Agriculture | 4.0% | 4.0% | 2025 |
What this chart reads
- World · Services Value Added · % of GDPas “Services”latest 2024-12-31
- World · Manufacturing Value Added · % of GDPas “Manufacturing”latest 2025-12-31
- World · Industry Other Than Manufacturing (Mining, Construction, Utilities) · % of GDPas “Mining, construction and utilities”latest 2025-12-31
- World · Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added · % of GDPas “Agriculture, forestry and fishing”latest 2025-12-31
- World · GDP Not Counted in Any Sector (Net Product Taxes and Adjustments) · % of GDPas “Taxes less subsidies on products”latest 2024-12-31
Sources
World · Services Value Added · % of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS (World Bank and OECD national accounts data): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS. License: CC BY 4.0 (indicator metadata License_Type "CC BY-4.0", checked 2026-10-21). Read monthly.
World · Manufacturing Value Added · % of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.IND.MANF.ZS ("Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)"), from national statistical offices, central banks and World Bank staff estimates: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.MANF.ZS. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI License_Type). Aggregates are the World Bank's weighted averages. WDI marks some missing years as 0; Palanor drops those, and otherwise stores the World Bank's values unchanged. Palanor reads it with.
World · Industry Other Than Manufacturing (Mining, Construction, Utilities) · % of GDP. Source: Palanor calculation (src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts) from World Bank, World Development Indicators, NV.IND.TOTL.ZS (World Bank and OECD national accounts data): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.IND.TOTL.ZS. License: CC BY 4.0 (indicator metadata License_Type "CC BY-4.0", checked 2026-10-21). Read monthly. and NV.IND.MANF.ZS.
World · Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing Value Added · % of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS (World Bank and OECD national accounts data): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS. License: CC BY 4.0 (indicator metadata License_Type "CC BY-4.0", checked 2026-10-21). Read monthly.
World · GDP Not Counted in Any Sector (Net Product Taxes and Adjustments) · % of GDP. Source: Palanor calculation (src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts) from World Bank, World Development Indicators, NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS (World Bank and OECD national accounts data): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS. License: CC BY 4.0 (indicator metadata License_Type "CC BY-4.0", checked 2026-10-21). Read monthly., NV.IND.TOTL.ZS and NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS.
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