Manufacturing Market Data

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Publish Date: 30 Nov 2022
Code: MD-MMD-102
Research Type: Market Data
Manufacturing Market Data

Market Data Issue: MD-MMD-102 | Published: 30 Nov 2022

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Actionable Benefits

Actionable Benefits

  • Provides a detailed view of the global manufacturing landscape with deep dives in key regions and verticals.
  • Understand which are the largest addressable markets within manufacturing.
  • Obtain key inputs and market sizing for analyses.
  • Identify and better target new growth opportunities.
Critical Questions Answered

Critical Questions Answered

  • How many factories are there?
  • What is the average size of a factory in terms of floorspace and how does it vary by industry?
  • What are the largest manufacturing regions and verticals globally?
  • Which manufacturing verticals are dominant in key manufacturing countries?
Research Highlights

Research Highlights

  • Top number of manufacturing firms and factories globally.
  • Top 10 industries in terms of the number of enterprises, revenue, and employees for major regions.
  • Largest global manufacturers by revenue.
  • Largest global factories by size (square meters).
  • Breakdown of U.S. enterprises by floorspace, number of firms, factories, and industry.
  • U.S. manufacturing businesses by vertical and number of employees.
  • Regional breakdowns for United States, China, Japan, and Germany by number of enterprises per industry, number of factories per industry, output per industry, employees per industry, and value added per industry.
  • Breakdown of revenue, number of firms, and number of employees for European Union countries.
  • Manufacturing value added by country and region.
Who Should Read This?

Who Should Read This?

  • Market intelligence and strategy professionals.
  • Technology suppliers in marketing, product management, and sales.
  • Digital transformation executives, project managers, and lean leaders in industrial and manufacturing.
  • Technology implementers (System Integrators (SIs), Value-Added Resellers (VARs)), Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), and wireless networking infrastructure providers.

Tables

  1. MVA Market Size by Country, World Markets: 2018 to 2021
  2. MVA Market Share by Country, World Markets: 2018 to 2020
  3. Number of Manufacturing Enterprises by Country, World Markets: 2020
  4. Number of Factories by Country, World Markets: 2020
  5. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes and Revenue, World Markets: 2020
  6. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes and Revenue across "Big Four" Countries, China, United States, Japan, Germany: 2020
  7. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes, China: 2020
  8. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes Percentage Splits, China: 2020
  9. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes, United States: 2020
  10. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes Percentage Splits, United States: 2020
  11. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes, Japan: 2020
  12. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes Percentage Splits, Japan: 2020
  13. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes, Germany: 2020
  14. Manufacturing Vertical Industry Codes Percentage Splits, Germany: 2020
  15. Total Industry Figures across "Big Four" Countries, China, United States, Japan, Germany: 2020
  16. Total Industry Figures across "Big Four" Countries Percentage Split, China, United States, Japan, Germany: 2020
  17. Manufacturing Value Add (US$), World Markets: 2015 to 2021
  18. Largest Manufacturers by Revenue, World Markets: 2020
  19. Largest Factories by Size, World Markets: 2022
  20. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Enterprises, United States: 2019 and 2020
  21. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Employees, United States: 2019 and 2020
  22. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Annual Payroll, United States: 2019 and 2020
  23. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by MVA, United States: 2019 and 2020
  24. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by CAPEX for Machinery and Equipment, United States: 2019 and 2020
  25. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by CAPEX for Computers and Peripheral Data Processing Equipment, United States: 2019 and 2020
  26. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Expensed Purchases of Software, United States: 2019 and 2020
  27. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Data Processing and Other Purchased Computer Services, United States: 2019 and 2020
  28. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Communications Services Spending, United States: 2019 and 2020
  29. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Purchased Professional and Technical Services by Industry, United States: 2019 and 2020
  30. Number and Percentage of Enterprises, Establishments, Employees, and Annual Payroll by Size of Enterprise, United States: 2019
  31. Manufacturing: Summary Statistics, United States: 2020
  32. Manufacturing Establishments by Number of Employees, United States: 2019
  33. Enclosed Floorspace and Number of Establishment Buildings, United States: 2018
  34. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Revenue, China: 2019 and 2020
  35. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Enterprises, China: 2019 and 2020
  36. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Employees, China: 2019 and 2020
  37. Number of Enterprises and Production Value by Industry and Size, China: 2020
  38. Percentage of Employees and Production Value by Enterprise Size, China: 2020
  39. Number of Enterprises, Production Value, and Number of Employees by Enterprise Size, China: 2020
  40. Manufacturing: Summary Statistics, China: 2020
  41. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Revenue, Japan: 2020
  42. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Enterprises, Japan: 2020
  43. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Employees, Japan: 2020
  44. Japan Manufacturing Summary Statistics, 2021 Topline
  45. Manufacturing: Summary Statistics, Japan: 2020
  46. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Revenue, Germany: 2018 to 2020
  47. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Enterprises, Germany: 2018 to 2020
  48. Top 10 Manufacturing Industries by Employees, Germany: 2018 to 2020
  49. Number of Enterprises, Production Value, and Number of Employees by Enterprise Size, Germany: 2020
  50. Manufacturing: Summary Statistics, Germany: 2020
  51. Top 10 Manufacturing Countries in Europe by Enterprises, European Union (+ United Kingdom): 2018 to 2020
  52. Top 10 Manufacturing Countries in Europe by Output Revenue, European Union (+ United Kingdom): 2018 to 2020
  53. Manufacturing Production Output by Industry and Country, European Union: 2020
  54. Manufacturing Enterprises by Industry and Country, European Union: 2020
  55. Manufacturing Enterprises by Number of Employees, European Union: 2020

Coverage Details

What's New in This Release?

This report is an update from the previous year’s Manufacturing Market Data (MD-MMD-101). Key yearly updates on global manufacturing market size to note are 2020 data for Germany, China, and the United States, and 2020/2021 World Bank data for manufacturing value add.

For better alignment with the colloquially-used industry groupings in industrial and manufacturing markets (i.e., automotive versus transportation), ABI Research normalized the country codes for China, the United States, Japan, and the European Union (EU) as follows:

  • ABI101 Food Manufacturing
  • ABI102 Beverage Manufacturing
  • ABI103 Tobacco Manufacturing
  • ABI104 Textiles, Clothing, & Footwear
  • ABI105 Pulp & Paper
  • ABI106 Wood & Furniture Products
  • ABI107 Printing and Related Activities
  • ABI108 Petroleum, Coal, & Other Fuel Products
  • ABI109 Chemical Manufacturing
  • ABI110 Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Manufacturing
  • ABI111 Plastic & Rubber Manufacturing
  • ABI112 Non-Metallic Mineral Product Manufacturing
  • ABI113 Primary Metal Manufacturing
  • ABI114 Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing
  • ABI115 Machinery Manufacturing
  • ABI116 Computer and Electronics Manufacturing
  • ABI117 Electrical Equipment and Appliance Manufacturing
  • ABI118 Automobile Manufacturing
  • ABI119 Other Transportation Manufacturing
  • ABI120 Miscellaneous Manufacturing

The specific breakdown is available in the “Industry Codes Index” worksheet. This shows the 430 component codes that have been included with the 20 above. For example, ABI111 (Plastic & Rubber Manufacturing) includes the U.S. codes 3261 (Plastics Product Manufacturing) and 3262 (Rubber Product Manufacturing).

Key Findings

The global manufacturing value added market size was US$16.4 trillion in 2021.

The top producing regions driving the global manufacturing market size are China, the United States, Japan, and Germany (in that order), cumulatively representing over half of the world’s manufacturing value add at 58%. The automotive market is the total largest manufacturing industry by revenue across the “big four” (China, the United States, Japan, and Germany), representing 11.5% of all revenue. It is the largest industry in both Germany and Japan; however, in the United States, it is second to food manufacturing, and in China, it is the fourth largest in size, after computer and electronics, primary metal, and machinery manufacturing. Automotive manufacturing also boasts the largest factories by size, with 9 of the top 10 largest factories being in the automotive industry, with the Volkswagen Wolfsburg Plant spanning an enormous 6.58 Square Kilometers (km2).

Process manufacturing is larger than discrete manufacturing in both China and the United States, US$6,609,200,050,000 and US$2,865,182,193,000 to US$6,505,321,180,000 and US$2,209,668,459,000, respectively. In Japan and Germany, discrete manufacturing was the larger market, US$1,905,735,654,000 and US$1,074,770,225,525 to US$1,562,439,999,865 and US$723,235,911,381[CJH1] , respectively.

The scale and efficiency of the “big four” markets is interesting to evaluate in the context of the global manufacturing market size. While China remains around 2.5X larger than the United States in terms of manufacturing revenue, it employs 6X as many individuals. This would serve to show a significant efficiency advantage for the United States in the way in which its manufacturing manpower is deployed. Along a similar vein regarding enterprise efficiency, the data also show that Japan, while having 20,142 fewer overall enterprises than Germany, has manufacturing revenue 1.7X larger. This would indicate that the value scale of Japanese manufacturing firms nearly doubles that of Germany on average.

The size of companies in these four key manufacturing nations highlights the ever-growing importance of technology and digital innovation in the global manufacturing market size. While smaller companies do benefit from digital technologies, larger companies experience far greater scaling of efficiencies from digital twins, the cloud, simulation software, 5G, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). In China, for example, large enterprises (with more than 250 employees) make up only 2% of enterprises, but are responsible for 42% of production value. In the United States, just over 2,000 of the largest manufacturers now employ over 50% of the manufacturing workforce.

Some other key industry figures to note:

  • The Chinese automotive market is almost double the size of the U.S. market. However, despite being twice the size, it employs 4X the number of individuals. This would suggest that U.S. manufacturing processes are more advanced and automated than Chinese ones.
  • The U.S. food manufacturing market is almost 4X the size of Germany’s, but has fewer overall enterprises, with only 23,655 to 26,898.
  • While the Chinese pharmaceutical and medicinal manufacturing market is only around 3X the size of Japan’s, it has 13X the number of enterprises.

Methodology

 

Key Motivations and Outcomes:

ABI Research has developed this market data (MD) to empower clients to observe the latest manufacturing macro trends across regions and industries in the context of the global manufacturing market size. It establishes foundational data to reference for internal and external market sizing and analyses with confidence that the data are the latest available from primary sources, in a central location. These data also show the bounds of what is possible in a range of areas (number of establishments, factory space, productivity, output), plus which industries and organizations lead versus lag behind.

Market Data Output and Segmentation:

  • World’s largest manufacturers by value added
  • Manufacturing value added by country and region
  • China, the United States, Japan, and Germany by industry
  • Largest manufacturers
  • Largest factories
  • Regional Breakdowns: United States, China, Japan, Germany:

     - Number of enterprises per industry

     - Number of factories per industry

     - Output per industry

     - Employees per industry

     - Value added per industry

  • Breakdown of U.S. enterprises by floorspace, number of firms, factories, and industry
  • U.S. manufacturing businesses by vertical and number of employees
  • Breakdown of revenue, number of firms, and number of employees for Europe region

Data Validation, Key Assumptions, and Input Data

Data surrounding the global manufacturing market size were generated through secondary research from governmental databases, including the Census, Labor Force Survey, and statistics bureaus. Monetary data from data sources were expressed in the respective domestic currency of each region, which is converted to U.S. dollars using the average exchange rate for the respective year.

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