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Industrial production by sector

The analysis that follows refers to the division breakdown (first 2-digit level) of the Statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community (NACE). In some cases, the results are presented as a group of divisions, i.e. Food, beverages and tobacco (Divisions 10, 11 and 12 of NACE Rev.2).

Figure 3 shows the share of the manufacturing activities in the EU's value of sold production for 2011 and 2021 respectively. The EU's value of sold production is concentrated in fourteen groups of activities; six of these groups account for almost three-quarters of the total for both reference years. The sectors manufacture of food, beverages & tobacco products, manufacture of motor vehicles and other transport equipment and manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products accounted for 45 % of the value of the sold production in 2021.

The value of sold production in almost all other manufacturing activities raised up between 9 % and 60 % from 2011 to 2021. Looking into the smaller contributing domains, the manufacture of pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations had the highest increase (60 %) in 2021, compared with the 2011 value of sold production.

Figure 3: Value of sold production by group _of manufacturing activity, EU, 2011 and 2021 (% share of total sold production)
Source: Eurostat DS_066341