Small scale industries share by country

Countries reporting
57
Highest
63.41
Palestine
Lowest
0.21
Ecuador
Median
9.68
Years covered
21
2004–2024
Data points
804

What the numbers show

Small scale industries share is currently reported for 57 countries. The highest value is 63.41 in Palestine; the lowest is 0.21 in Ecuador.

The median across all reporting countries is 9.68, and the mean is 10.6.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 302.

Over the past decade 20 countries rose and 36 fell. The largest increase was in Malaysia (up 109.2%), and the largest decrease in Ecuador (down 85.7%).

Small scale industries share: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Palestine 63.41 2019 — rising
2 Cyprus 31.37 2023 down 13.5% falling
3 Australia 20.17 2015 down 3.1% flat
4 New Zealand 18.57 2023 up 17.3% rising
5 Georgia 17.91 2023 up 30.4% rising
6 Croatia 17.33 2023 up 14.3% rising
7 Portugal 16.67 2023 down 11.0% falling
8 Malta 16.08 2023 down 73.6% volatile
9 Slovenia 15.67 2024 down 2.6% flat
10 Estonia 15.46 2023 up 18.6% rising
11 Greece 15.43 2023 down 45.0% falling
12 Italy 15.04 2024 down 35.7% falling
13 Turkey 14.57 2023 up 64.6% flat
14 United Kingdom 13.77 2023 up 12.0% flat
15 Spain 13.5 2023 down 25.2% falling
16 North Macedonia 12.97 2023 down 22.4% falling
17 Albania 12.7 2023 down 39.7% falling
18 Latvia 12.52 2023 up 5.2% flat
19 Netherlands 12.43 2023 down 9.1% falling
20 Iceland 12.25 2024 down 13.2% falling
20 Bosnia and Herzegovina 12.25 2023 down 19.5% falling
22 Slovakia 11.65 2023 up 1.0% rising
23 Ukraine 10.65 2023 up 105.6% rising
24 Poland 10.55 2023 up 12.6% rising
25 Czechia 10.46 2023 up 2.0% falling
26 Bulgaria 10.44 2023 up 1.2% rising
27 Romania 10.22 2023 up 19.5% rising
28 Serbia 9.86 2023 up 10.4% rising
29 Finland 9.68 2023 down 22.2% falling
30 Lithuania 8.87 2023 up 3.1% rising
31 South Korea 8.85 2023 up 38.1% rising
32 Norway 8.52 2024 down 27.5% falling
33 Israel 8.14 2021 down 4.9% falling
34 Hungary 8.09 2023 up 10.5% flat
35 Japan 7.84 2021 down 34.4% falling
36 Belgium 6.92 2024 down 27.2% falling
37 Switzerland 6.89 2023 down 29.4% falling
38 Indonesia 6.53 2022 down 36.4% falling
39 Sweden 6.44 2023 down 41.2% falling
40 Denmark 5.88 2024 down 30.2% falling
41 Ireland 5.81 2024 down 42.7% volatile
42 France 5.66 2022 down 60.4% falling
43 Kazakhstan 5.05 2024 up 7.7% rising
44 Austria 4.96 2024 down 41.9% falling
45 Germany 4.95 2023 down 40.2% falling
46 Uruguay 4.67 2022 down 32.7% falling
47 Malaysia 3.85 2022 up 109.2% volatile
48 Mexico 3.83 2023 down 39.2% volatile
49 Colombia 3.52 2023 down 19.8% falling
50 Sri Lanka 3.39 2017 down 18.1% falling
51 Chile 3.35 2021 down 80.6% volatile
52 Belarus 2.77 2022 down 30.9% falling
53 India 2.24 2017 down 27.0% falling
54 Singapore 1.58 2022 down 41.5% falling
55 Luxembourg 1.1 2022 down 77.2% falling
56 Brazil 0.66 2023 up 15.8% flat
57 Ecuador 0.21 2021 down 85.7% volatile

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Indicator
Small scale industries share
Source
Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
57 places, 804 data points, 2004–2024
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