Industry, value added per worker (constant 2010 USD) - NV.IND.EMPL.KD

Data - WDI

Author

François Geerolf

Last observation: 2025 (N = 191)

First observation: 1991 (N = 151)

Last data update: 04 sept. 2026, 00:26

Last compile: 04 sept. 2026, 00:35

Nobs - Javascript

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  group_by(iso2c, Iso2c) |>
  mutate(value = round(value, 1)) |>
  summarise(Nobs = n(),
            `Year 1` = first(year),
            `Value added in Industry 1 (%)` = first(value),
            `Year 2` = last(year),
            `Value added in Industry 2 (%)` = last(value)) |>
  arrange(-`Value added in Industry 2 (%)`) %>%
  {if (is_html_output()) datatable(., filter = 'top', rownames = F) else .}

Japan

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("JP")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Industry, value added per worker") + theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.2, 0.2)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 200000, 10000),
                     labels = comma)

China, France, Germany

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("CN", "FR", "DE")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags + theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.15, 0.9)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 200000, 10000),
                     labels = dollar_format()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Industry, value added per worker")

Italy, Portugal, Spain

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("ES", "IT", "PT")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags + theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.15, 0.9)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 200000, 10000),
                     labels = dollar_format()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Industry, value added per worker")

Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Linear

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "GB", "ES")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags + theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.15, 0.9)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 200000, 10000),
                     labels = dollar_format()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Industry, value added per worker")

Log

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("US", "GB", "ES")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags + theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.15, 0.9)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_log10(breaks = seq(0, 200000, 10000),
                     labels = dollar_format()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Industry, value added per worker")

Argentina, Chile, Venezuela

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("AR", "CL", "VE")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags + theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.15, 0.9)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_log10(breaks = seq(0, 200000, 10000),
                     labels = dollar_format()) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Industry, value added per worker")

Greece, Hong Kong, Mexico

Code 
NV.IND.EMPL.KD |>
  filter(iso2c %in% c("GR", "HK", "MX")) |>
  left_join(iso2c, by = "iso2c") |>
  mutate(Iso2c = ifelse(iso2c == "HK", "Hong Kong", Iso2c)) |>
  year_to_date() |>
  add_flag_color("Iso2c") |>
  mutate(value = value) |>
  ggplot() + geom_line(aes(x = date, y = value, color = color)) +
  theme_minimal() + scale_color_identity() + add_flags + theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
        legend.position = c(0.15, 0.9)) +
  scale_x_date(breaks = seq(1950, 2100, 5) |> paste0("-01-01") |> as.Date(),
               labels = date_format("%Y")) +
  scale_y_log10(breaks = seq(0, 200000, 5000),
                     labels = dollar_format(a = 1)) +
  xlab("") + ylab("Industry, value added per worker")