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Manufacturing Industry Statistics

See how manufacturing output and productivity are reshaping the competitive map, with 2026 figures pointing to a sharp shift from the slower gains of recent years. This page connects the latest labor, investment, and demand signals into one clear snapshot of what is likely to drive factory performance next.
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November 10, 2026Updated
Manufacturing Industry Statistics
Marcus AfolabiWritten by Marcus Afolabi·Edited by David Kowalski·Fact-checked by Jonathan Hale
Published ·Updated
How this report is researched
01Editorial Scope

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02Source Research

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01 Industry overview

The manufacturing industry at a glance

Global manufacturing value added reached $17.6 trillion in 2025, while the sector grew 2.9% in 2024 as production continued shifting toward Asia and higher-technology industries.

$17.6T[79]
Global value added, 2025
2.9%[20]
Global growth, 2024
12.0M[74]
U.S. manufacturing employees, 2024
27.4%[79]
China share of global value added, 2025
Market size
Global manufacturing value added was $17.6 trillion in 2025, according to World Bank data. East Asia and the Pacific accounted for $7.5 trillion, while the European Union accounted for $3.0 trillion.[79]
Forecast & CAGR
UNIDO projects global manufacturing growth of 2.8% in 2025, following 2.9% growth in 2024. The available UNIDO forecast is an annual growth rate rather than a multi-year CAGR.[20]
Market share & regions
Asia accounted for 81.1% of manufacturing within regional industry value added in 2024, compared with 82.8% in Europe and 75.1% in Northern America. China represented approximately 27.4% of global manufacturing value added in 2025, calculated from World Bank country and world totals.[80][79]
Segmentation
Manufacturing spans food, chemicals, machinery, transport equipment, electronics, metals and other product groups. UNIDO reported that computers and electronics led manufacturing industries in 2025, while food products grew about 2.1% and motor vehicles were approximately flat in 2025.[20][74]
Key players & concentration
Manufacturing is geographically concentrated: China generated $4.82 trillion of value added in 2025, compared with $17.60 trillion globally, giving it an approximate 27.4% share. The next major producers included Germany at $889.6 billion, Japan at $788.5 billion and India at $532.9 billion.[79]
Pricing
Pricing conditions remained elevated in the United States: the producer price index for final demand increased 6.3% year over year in September 2026, while final-demand goods prices rose 2.6% during the month. In the EU, industrial producer prices increased 0.3% in 2025 after falling 2.5% in 2024.[30][11]
Trends, drivers & challenges
Automation, electrification, defense demand, grid investment and supply-chain regionalization are supporting selected manufacturing subsectors. Countervailing pressures include geopolitical instability, trade restrictions, tariff uncertainty and elevated energy and commodity costs; UNIDO reported only 1.2% growth in high-income manufacturing economies in 2024.[20][6]
M&A
Industrial manufacturing M&A became more selective in 2026. PwC reported $173 billion of U.S. industrial manufacturing deal value over the latest annual period, up 28% from $135 billion in FY2025, with AI infrastructure, grid modernization and defense among the main demand themes.[6]
Latest news
The latest broad production data showed EU sold production increasing 2.9% in constant prices in 2025, reversing declines of 1.5% in 2023 and 1.9% in 2024. In the United States, manufacturing employment was 8.76 million production and nonsupervisory workers in October 2026, seasonally adjusted.[11][30]
report visual · Projection

Real value added by U.S. manufacturing industries

Real value added by U.S. manufacturing industries grew from 2,294.4 billions of chained 2017 dollars in 2022 to 2,415.3 billions of chained 2017 dollars in 2025.

$2,294
Start
+1.73%
CAGR · 3y
$2,416
Projected
20222025
source-verifiedfred.stlouisfed.org2025

02 Ranking

Top 10 Companies in the Manufacturing Industry

The leading companies in the manufacturing industry, ranked on market impact, performance, momentum, innovation and brand popularity.

Updated November 9, 2026 · Next review December 9, 2026

Verdict

Apple leads Gitnux's 2026 manufacturing ranking with an Overall score of 9.2, with $478.8 billion in fiscal 2026 net sales from its product and services ecosystem. Samsung Electronics is the highest-ranked semiconductor manufacturer at 9.1, with 33 manufacturing sites across its global network.

Ranked by Overall score · How we score ↓

Editor's top 3 picks

Where to start, by need.

  1. #1 Overall · Leader in consumer electronics

    Apple

    US

    Ranked #1 · 9.2 · Consumer electronics

    Why we picked it: It reports large-scale product-and-services revenue in consumer electronics and personal technology.

    See in ranking ↓Visit apple.com ↗

  2. Leader in semiconductor manufacturing

    Samsung Electronics

    KR

    Ranked #2 · 9.1 · Semiconductor manufacturing

    Why we picked it: It operates 33 manufacturing sites spanning semiconductors, electronics and appliances.

    See in ranking ↓Visit samsung.com ↗

  3. Leader in industrial automation

    Siemens

    DE

    Ranked #3 · 9.0 · Industrial automation

    Why we picked it: Its industry and infrastructure technology footprint centers on manufacturing and related sectors.

    See in ranking ↓Visit siemens.com ↗

Pick 1 is the #1 company overall. Picks 2 and 3 are the highest-ranked companies in the top 5 that add a new segment.

Full ranking

Sort by
Top 10 companies in the manufacturing industry, 2026 – Gitnux ranking
#CompanyOverall ↓Company snapshot
1

Apple

Consumer electronics · US

9.2
2

Samsung Electronics

Semiconductor manufacturing · KR

9.1
3

Siemens

Industrial automation · DE

9.0
4

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing

Semiconductor foundry · TW

8.9
5

ASML

Semiconductor equipment · NL

8.9
6

Boeing

Commercial aircraft, defense and space manufacturing · US

8.5
7

BYD

Electric vehicles, batteries and electronics · CN

8.1
8

Sony Group

Consumer electronics, imaging and entertainment hardware · JP

7.9
9

Ford Motor

Automotive manufacturing and mobility · US

7.5
10

BMW Group

Premium automotive manufacturing · DE

7.5

How we score

  • Impact (30%): scale and weight in the market (revenue, market share, employees, market position).
  • Performance (20%): recent revenue growth and operating margin; an analyst assessment where a company does not publish them.
  • Momentum (20%): growth trajectory and future potential.
  • Innovation (15%): R&D intensity and how technologically advanced the company is.

Popularity (brand search demand, 15%) counts toward Overall but is not published as a column. Overall leaves out what is not known.

Scale Scores are shown on a 7–10 scale with one decimal; bars start at 7.0.

Cadence Recalculated when new figures are published; next review December 9, 2026.

Independence. Rankings are editorially independent. Scores, ranks, picks and the verdict follow the method above; no company can pay to change them.

Cite this ranking

APA

Marcus Afolabi. (2026, February 13). Top 10 companies in the manufacturing industry. In Manufacturing Industry Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/manufacturing-industry-statistics/#top-companies

04 Statistics

Technology & Innovation

AI and automation adoption show measurable penetration: 29% of U.S. manufacturers reported AI or machine learning at facility or network level in 2025.

AI in the manufacturing industry

  • 8% of manufacturing respondents were using artificial intelligence in 2024.[1]
  • 29% of U.S. manufacturers reported using AI or machine learning at facility or network level in 2025.[2]
  • 24% of U.S. manufacturers had deployed generative AI in 2025.[2]
  • 92% of U.S. manufacturers surveyed said smart manufacturing would drive competitiveness over the next three years in 2025.[2]
  • 22% of U.S. manufacturers not using AI or machine learning were considering adoption in the future in a late-2023 survey.[3]
  • Less than 5% of U.S. manufacturing firms had adopted AI, equivalent to about 20% when weighted by employment, in 2021.[4]

Automation in the manufacturing industry

  • U.S. automotive manufacturers installed 13,700 industrial robots in 2024, a 10.7% increase from 2023.[5]
  • 4,663,773 industrial robots were operating in factories worldwide in 2024.[5]
  • The global operational stock of industrial robots reached 4,281,585 units in 2023, up 10% year over year.[5]
  • China accounted for 54% of global industrial-robot deployments in 2024, with 295,000 installations.[5]
  • 542,076 industrial robots were installed worldwide in manufacturing in 2024.[5]
  • The electronics industry installed 128,899 industrial robots worldwide in 2024, making it the largest robotics customer sector.[5]

Digital Transformation in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 32% of U.S. industrial-products respondents said their operations-technology investments had delivered expected results in 2024.[6]
  • 34% of industrial-manufacturing organizations across 26 countries had achieved return on investment from multiple AI use cases in 2024.[7]
  • 76% of industrial-manufacturing firms across 26 countries reported that their workforce had an appetite to embrace cutting-edge technology in 2024.[7]
  • 24% of companies across the European Industrial Ecosystem had a concrete digital-transformation strategy in 2024.[8]

Technology Adoption in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 37% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing AI and automation strategies in 2024.[9]
  • 35% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing data-and-analytics strategies in 2024.[9]
  • 30% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing edge-computing strategies in 2024.[9]
  • 31% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing modern-delivery technologies, including low-code and no-code, in 2024.[9]

Cloud Computing in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 39% of industrial-manufacturing organizations were proactive in advancing XaaS technologies, including public and multicloud, in 2024.[9]
  • 87% of Finnish manufacturing enterprises used cloud computing in 2023.[10]
  • 87% of Australian manufacturing enterprises used cloud computing in 2022.[10]
  • 54% of EU manufacturing enterprises used paid cloud-computing services in 2025, up from approximately 45% in 2023.[11]

Big Data in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 57% of manufacturers used some form of artificial intelligence to analyze collected manufacturing data in 2024.[12]
  • 60% of manufacturers surveyed could collect and normalize data from assets or equipment in 2024, across 461 decision makers in the United States, Germany and Malaysia.[13]
  • 28% of manufacturing survey respondents were implementing big-data processing in 2024.[1]
  • 44% of manufacturing leaders reported that the amount of data their organizations collected had at least doubled over the previous two years in 2024.[14]
  • 67% of manufacturers surveyed in the United States, Germany and Malaysia could collect and analyze data in near real time in 2024.[13]
  • 16.2% of businesses in the European Industrial Ecosystem used big-data technologies in 2024.[8]

05 Statistics

Data & Analytics

Data architecture and governance gaps persist alongside increasing real-time capability; 32% of manufacturers had partially mapped analytics architecture in 2024.

Business intelligence in the manufacturing industry

  • 32% of manufacturers had partially mapped, but not clearly integrated, architecture for data analytics and business intelligence in 2024.[15]
  • 57% of manufacturers had detailed architecture mapping for data analytics and business intelligence in 2024.[15]
  • 66% of manufacturers used statistical-analysis programs or standard business-intelligence systems to analyze manufacturing data in 2024.[12]
  • 68% of manufacturers used spreadsheets to analyze at least some manufacturing data in 2024.[12]
  • 11% of manufacturers had unclear or undefined architecture for data analytics and business intelligence in 2024.[15]

Data analytics in the manufacturing industry

  • 57% of manufacturers used artificial intelligence to analyze collected manufacturing data in 2024.[12]
  • 56% of manufacturers collected at least half of their manufacturing data in real time or near real time in 2024.[12]
  • 15% of manufacturers used external analytics or artificial-intelligence partners to analyze manufacturing data in 2024.[12]
  • 26% of small and midsized manufacturers regularly used analytics for operational monitoring in the first quarter of 2026.[16]
  • 27% of manufacturers used in-house artificial-intelligence systems to analyze manufacturing data in 2024.[12]
  • 15% of manufacturers used cloud artificial-intelligence systems to analyze manufacturing data in 2024.[12]

Data Quality in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 44% of manufacturers surveyed reported that AI projects had failed because of poor data quality in 2025.[17]
  • 51% of manufacturers surveyed said their data was siloed across disparate tools and systems in 2025.[17]
  • 54% of manufacturers surveyed had duplicate data in several systems in 2025.[17]
  • 41% of manufacturers surveyed distrusted the data used for supply-chain operations in 2025.[17]
  • 61% of manufacturing leaders agreed that poor data quality limited adoption and optimization of emerging technologies in 2025.[18]
  • 30% of manufacturers identified poor data quality as a technical barrier to improving processes in 2025.[18]

Data Governance in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • 61% of manufacturers surveyed had a corporate-wide governance plan, strategy or formal data-management guidelines in 2024.[12]
  • 22% of manufacturers surveyed included data collection, management or analysis in executive incentives, KPIs or business imperatives in 2024.[12]
  • 58% of manufacturers surveyed assigned primary data-governance responsibility to a C-suite or senior leader in 2024.[12]
  • 15% of manufacturers surveyed said their data strategy was entirely aligned with their overall business strategy in 2024.[12]

KPIs in the manufacturing industry

  • 44% of manufacturing respondents rated on-time delivery as very important for measuring organizational success in 2026.[19]
  • 88% of manufacturing companies tracked net promoter score at the business-unit level in the Manufacturers Alliance survey.[15]
  • 41% of manufacturing respondents rated profitability as very important for measuring organizational success in 2026.[19]
  • 39% of manufacturing respondents rated safety incident rate as very important for measuring organizational success in 2026.[19]
  • 41% of manufacturing respondents rated uptime or availability as very important for measuring organizational success in 2026.[19]
  • 53% of manufacturing companies tracked on-time delivery as a customer-service KPI at the corporate level.[15]

06 Statistics

Strategy & Growth

Growth rates differ by income groups: UNIDO reported 1.2% growth in high-income manufacturing economies in 2024.

Growth in the manufacturing industry

  • Manufacturing value added in low-income economies grew by 2.0% in 2024.[20]
  • Manufacturing value added in high-income industrial economies grew by 1.2% in 2024.[20]
  • Manufacturing value added in middle-income industrial economies grew by approximately 4.3% in 2024.[21]
  • EU manufacturing employed 30.286221 million people in 2023.[11]
  • China’s manufacturing value added grew by 4.9% in 2024.[20]
  • EU manufacturing generated €9.850576 trillion in net turnover in 2023.[11]

Differentiation in the manufacturing industry

  • 6.0% of Colombian manufacturing firms reported product innovation only in the referenced surveys.[22]
  • 66.2% of Italian industry enterprises introduced at least one product or process innovation during 2022–2024.[23]
  • 9.4% of Colombian manufacturing firms reported simultaneous product and process innovation in the referenced surveys.[22]
  • 18.0% of Italian manufacturing and industry turnover came from products new to the firm or market in 2024.[23]
  • 69.2% of Italian manufacturing and other industry enterprises undertook innovation activities during 2022–2024.[23]
  • 11.4% of Colombian manufacturing firms reported process innovation in the referenced manufacturing surveys.[22]

Mergers and acquisitions in the manufacturing industry

  • $375 million was the average U.S. industrial-manufacturing deal size in the latest annual period reported in 2026.[6]
  • $532 billion was the transaction value of industrial-manufacturing convergence deals from 2021 through 2025.[6]
  • $135 billion was the value of U.S. industrial-manufacturing M&A transactions in FY2025.[6]
  • 28% was the increase in U.S. industrial-manufacturing M&A value over FY2025 in the latest year reported by PwC.[6]
  • 83.5 billion dollars was the industrial-manufacturing M&A deal value in the United States during Q4 2024.[7]
  • 56% of industrial-manufacturing deal value came from transactions above $5 billion in the latest annual period reported in 2026.[6]

Strategic partnerships in the manufacturing industry

  • 88% of surveyed manufacturers viewed technology collaborations as important for implementation in 2026.[24]
  • 90% of surveyed manufacturers viewed partnerships as critical to delivering digital products and services in 2026.[24]
  • 86% of surveyed manufacturers viewed partnerships as important for enhancing digital-product or service features in 2026.[24]
  • 88% of surveyed manufacturers viewed partnerships as important for expanding market reach in 2026.[24]
  • 47.3% of Japanese manufacturing companies reported collaboration with universities in the 2024 JETRO survey.[25]
  • 87% of surveyed manufacturers viewed strategic partnerships with system integrators and advisers as important in 2026.[24]

07 Statistics

People & Workforce

Talent constraints remain a quantified theme: 31% hourly turnover in manufacturing persisted in both 2023 and 2024.

Hiring in the manufacturing industry

  • 760,000 projected U.S. manufacturing job openings through 2033 are expected to result from industry growth.[26]
  • More than 54.9% of U.S. manufacturers identified attracting and retaining talent as their primary business challenge in the third quarter of 2026.[26]
  • Nearly 60% of U.S. manufacturers cited inability to attract and retain employees as their top challenge in the third quarter of 2024.[27]
  • 3.8 million new U.S. manufacturing workers may be needed by 2033.[27]
  • Nearly 300 U.S. clean-technology, semiconductor and electronics manufacturing facilities had been announced or planned for completion by 2031 as of September 2023.[27]

Employee retention in the manufacturing industry

  • 31% was the industry-wide hourly employee turnover rate in manufacturing in both 2023 and 2024.[15]
  • 41% of manufacturers reported frontline turnover of at least 20% in 2025.[28]
  • 9% of manufacturers reported frontline turnover below 5% in 2025.[28]
  • 40% of manufacturers said retention challenges had not improved since 2024 in a 2026 survey.[15]
  • Manufacturing separation averaged about 1.9% in the United States in 2023.[15]

Remote Work in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across U.S. manufacturing, 19% of workers worked remotely, including hybrid and fully remote arrangements, during October 2023–September 2024.[29]
  • Across U.S. manufacturing, 36.9% of workers could work at home and 33.3% actually did so during 2024–2025.[30]
  • Across U.S. manufacturing, 35.2% of surveyed workers reported remote work in the Chicago Fed Survey of Economic Conditions from July 2021 through March 2024.[31]
  • Across U.S. manufacturing, teleworked hours represented 12.2% of total hours worked in 2025.[30]

Hybrid Work in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across manufacturing employees, 80% believed office mandates reflected a lack of trust that employees would be productive at home in 2025.[32]
  • Across manufacturing companies, the average required office attendance reached 2.82 days per week in the second quarter of 2025.[15]
  • Across manufacturing employers, 80% said their organizations were still struggling to balance hybrid working in 2025.[32]
  • Across manufacturing employers, 67% identified productivity as a key factor driving pressure to return to the office in 2025.[32]
  • Across manufacturing companies, 17% were fully back in the office for non-production employees in 2025.[15]

Upskilling in the manufacturing industry

  • 1.9 million U.S. manufacturing jobs could remain unfilled over the next decade without stronger workforce development, according to a 2024 study.[27]
  • 64% of manufacturing employees surveyed said upskilling or reskilling training was useful for building confidence in navigating changes in 2024.[33]
  • 29% of employees participating in upskilling or reskilling programs cited difficulty balancing work and training in 2024.[33]

Employee Engagement in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across manufacturing companies, 25% of respondents did not know whether their frontline workforce was engaged in 2023.[6]
  • Across manufacturing companies, 70% of respondents said most non-frontline employees were engaged in their jobs in 2023.[6]
  • Across manufacturing companies, 48% of respondents said most frontline workers were engaged in their jobs in 2023.[6]
  • Across manufacturing companies, 41% identified employee recognition as a high priority in 2024.[34]
  • Across manufacturing, distribution and storage organizations, the average employee-engagement score was 72.9% in 2026.[35]

DEI in the manufacturing industry

  • Women represented 28.4% of the United Kingdom manufacturing workforce in 2024.[36]
  • Four in ten people employed in manufacturing worldwide were women in 2023.[20]
  • 15.6% of women employed in manufacturing worked in medium-high- or high-technology industries in 2023, compared with 23.1% of men.[20]

08 Statistics

Customer & Sales

Service-model change links to operations and recurring relationships: 94% of global manufacturers said new service models were impacting operations in 2025.

Customer experience in the manufacturing industry

  • 98% of surveyed manufacturers had started their digital-transformation journey by 2023, partly to improve customer experience.[27]
  • 71% of global manufacturing service teams increased their focus on providing a consistent experience across every channel during the previous 12–18 months in 2024.[37]
  • 63% of global manufacturing service teams increased their focus on personalizing service interactions during the previous 12–18 months in 2024.[37]
  • 63% of global manufacturing service teams increased their focus on understanding customers’ full company history during the previous 12–18 months in 2024.[37]
  • 94% of global manufacturers said new service models were already impacting operations in 2025, linking service-model change with customer-value delivery.[38]

Customer retention in the manufacturing industry

  • 24.4% was the reported customer-retention performance for the manufacturing sector in The CMO Survey’s Fall 2024 sector comparison.[39]
  • 35% was the median customer-retention rate reported for manufacturing in CustomerGauge’s 2025 B2B account-experience benchmark.[40]
  • Manufacturing companies’ customer-retention budgets were 6.4% greater than their customer-acquisition budgets in Fall 2024.[39]

Customer acquisition in the manufacturing industry

  • 8.5% was the reported customer-acquisition performance for B2B product companies, the category that includes many manufacturers, in Spring 2024.[39]
  • 19.6% was the average excess of customer-acquisition budgets over customer-retention budgets across companies in Fall 2024, while manufacturing showed the reverse pattern.[39]

Customer loyalty in the manufacturing industry

  • 31% of global manufacturers used outcomes-based contracts in 2025, supporting recurring customer relationships beyond one-time product sales.[38]
  • 39% of global manufacturers identified servitization as central to long-term growth in 2025, a model intended to deepen ongoing customer relationships.[38]

Lead generation in the manufacturing industry

  • 74% of manufacturing marketers rated video as the most effective content type for their organizations in 2024.[41]
  • 85% of manufacturing marketers used video content during the previous 12 months in 2024.[41]
  • 52% of manufacturing marketers said efficient lead-generation and nurturing processes were missing from their marketing technology stack in 2024.[41]
  • 70% of manufacturing marketers used case studies or customer stories during the previous 12 months in 2024.[41]
  • 89% of manufacturing marketers used short articles or posts during the previous 12 months in 2024.[41]

09 Statistics

Marketing & Brand

Manufacturers’ marketing stacks show automation and reporting gaps, with 58% of marketing teams lacking automation for repetitive tasks in 2024.

Marketing in the manufacturing industry

  • 62% of manufacturing marketers expected investment in video to increase in 2025.[41]
  • 20% of manufacturing marketers rated their content strategy as very effective in 2024.[41]
  • 37% of manufacturing marketers expected their content-marketing budget to increase in 2025.[41]
  • 57% of manufacturing marketers identified lack of resources as their most pressing situational content-marketing challenge in 2024.[41]
  • 50% of manufacturing marketers expected investment in thought-leadership content to increase in 2025.[41]

Digital marketing in the manufacturing industry

  • 36% of manufacturing marketers had content-marketing technology but were not using it to its potential in 2024.[41]
  • 51% of manufacturing marketing teams experimented with generative AI on an ad hoc basis in 2024.[41]
  • 58% of manufacturing marketers said marketing-technology stacks lacked automation for repetitive tasks and workflows in 2024.[41]
  • 58% of manufacturing marketers said marketing-technology stacks lacked streamlined marketing-data management and reporting in 2024.[41]
  • 21% of manufacturing marketers said they had the right content-marketing technology in 2024.[41]

Branding in the manufacturing industry

  • 44% of manufacturing marketers said differentiating their content was a content-creation challenge in 2024.[41]
  • 45% of manufacturing marketers rated case studies and customer stories as among the most effective content types in 2024.[41]
  • 21% of manufacturing marketers cited inconsistent brand voice as a reason their content strategies were not as effective as they could be in 2024.[41]

Social media in the manufacturing industry

  • 67% of manufacturing marketers increased their use of LinkedIn during the previous 12 months in 2024.[41]
  • 85% of manufacturing marketers said LinkedIn delivered the best value for their organization in 2024.[41]
  • 31% of manufacturing marketers said Facebook delivered the best value for their organization in 2024.[41]
  • 40% of manufacturing marketers said YouTube delivered the best value for their organization in 2024.[41]
  • 95% of manufacturing marketers distributed content through organic social platforms during the previous 12 months in 2024.[41]

Influencer Marketing in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across B2B companies, 29% of marketers planned to adopt influencer marketing within the following year in 2025; global survey scope.[42]
  • Among manufacturing marketers using paid channels, 19% used influencer marketing in the 12 months covered by the 2025 outlook survey; global manufacturing, survey conducted June–August 2024.[41]
  • Across B2B companies, 28% ranked thought leaders or industry analysts as the most effective influencer type in 2025; global survey scope.[42]
  • Across B2B companies, 43% of marketers planned to increase influencer investment in the following year in 2025; global survey scope.[42]
  • Across B2B companies, 55% of marketers used influencers in 2025, providing a benchmark applicable to industrial manufacturing marketers.[42]

10 Statistics

Operations & Execution

Operational performance varies across industries, with U.S. manufacturing labor productivity up 0.3% in 2024 while output fell 0.4%.

Process optimization in the manufacturing industry

  • 0.4% was the year-over-year productivity increase for U.S. manufacturing in the third quarter of 2026.[30]
  • 2.8% was the year-over-year productivity increase for U.S. manufacturing in the third quarter of 2025.[30]
  • 35 of 86 U.S. four-digit manufacturing industries increased labor productivity between 2019 and 2024.[30]
  • 2.9% was the annualized increase in U.S. manufacturing labor productivity from the first to the second quarter of 2025.[30]
  • 0.3% was the increase in U.S. manufacturing labor productivity in 2024, while output fell 0.4% and hours worked fell 0.7%.[30]

Operational efficiency in the manufacturing industry

  • 2.1% was the long-run annualized U.S. manufacturing productivity growth rate from the first quarter of 1987 through the fourth quarter of 2024.[30]
  • 1.2% was the average annual manufacturing productivity increase in the United States from 1990 to 2024.[30]
  • 7.0% was the 2024 productivity decline in U.S. aerospace-products-and-parts manufacturing among large manufacturing industries.[30]
  • 21.2% was the 2024 decline in hours worked in U.S. electric-lighting-equipment manufacturing, the largest decrease among manufacturing industries.[30]
  • 52 of 86 U.S. four-digit manufacturing industries recorded lower labor productivity in 2024.[30]

Quality management in the manufacturing industry

  • 73% of manufacturers raised their own prices in the 2024 MPI global manufacturing study.[43]
  • 33 of 89 production aspects were reportedly failed by Boeing’s Renton plant in an FAA review in 2024.[44]
  • 24% of manufacturers reported that per-unit manufacturing costs excluding materials rose by more than 10% over the previous three years.[43]
  • 80% of manufacturers reported higher utility or fuel costs during the 12 months covered by the 2024 MPI study.[43]
  • 37% of global manufacturing plants reported average equipment mean time between failures of 24 hours or less in the 2024 MPI study.[43]

Supply chain in the manufacturing industry

  • 71% of North American manufacturers described supply-chain disruptions as very or extremely challenging in Parsec’s 2024 survey.[45]
  • 41% of North American manufacturers planned to diversify suppliers to improve resilience in Parsec’s 2024 survey.[45]
  • 43% of New York manufacturers said supply disruptions were impeding business activity in May 2024.[46]
  • 48% of New York manufacturing firms reported difficulty obtaining needed supplies in May 2024.[46]
  • 38% of New York manufacturers raised selling prices because of supply disruptions in May 2024.[46]

Outsourcing / Offshoring in the industrial manufacturing sector (sector benchmark)

  • Across global manufacturing, executives expected offshore facilities to decline to 28% within three years of 2025, while onshore facilities rise to 48%.[47]
  • Across EU enterprises sourcing abroad during 2021–2023, 39% outsourced business functions to external providers, while 72% used affiliated enterprises abroad for insourcing.[11]
  • Across global manufacturing, 37% of facilities were offshore in 2024, compared with 41% onshore and 22% nearshore.[47]
  • Across global manufacturing, 56% of executives in 2025 said their organization had invested in nearshoring or a combination of reshoring and nearshoring.[47]
  • Across global manufacturing, 73% of executives in 2025 believed friendshoring would represent a significant share of future sourcing and production.[47]

11 Statistics

Finance & Pricing

Costs and pricing stay elevated: 75% of manufacturers reported increased logistics or transportation costs in the 2024 MPI study.

Pricing strategy in the manufacturing industry

  • 62.8% of U.S. transport-equipment manufacturers reported increased prices paid in August 2025.[48]
  • 60.6% of U.S. textile manufacturers reported increased prices paid in August 2025.[48]
  • 57.0% of U.S. computer manufacturers reported increased prices paid in August 2025.[48]
  • 54.9% of U.S. machinery manufacturers reported increased prices paid in August 2025.[48]
  • 53.2% of U.S. chemical manufacturers reported increased prices paid in August 2025.[48]

Cost reduction in the manufacturing industry

  • 75% of manufacturers reported increased employee-wage costs in the 2024 MPI study.[43]
  • 3.1% was the increase in U.S. manufacturing unit labor costs in 2024.[30]
  • 3.7% was the increase in U.S. manufacturing unit labor costs in the fourth quarter of 2024.[30]
  • 67% was the average COGS-to-plant-sales ratio reported by manufacturers in 2024, up from 60% in the 2020 MPI study.[43]
  • 75% of manufacturers reported increased logistics or transportation costs in the 2024 MPI study.[43]

Profitability in the manufacturing industry

  • $174.213 billion was operating profit for all U.S. manufacturing corporations in the fourth quarter of 2024.[4]
  • $2.852 billion was operating profit for U.S. apparel and leather-product manufacturers in the fourth quarter of 2024.[4]
  • 3.2% was the 2024 pre-tax profit margin for German enterprises in the energy-intensive manufacturing sector, down from 4.4%.[49]
  • $78.961 billion was operating profit for U.S. nondurable manufacturing corporations in the fourth quarter of 2024.[4]
  • $209.274 billion was after-tax profit for all U.S. manufacturing corporations in the fourth quarter of 2024.[4]

Financial planning in the manufacturing industry

  • 20% of organizations reported unchanged year-over-year profit margins in Blue Yonder’s 2024 survey.[50]
  • 8% of organizations identified inventory as the area most affected by rising costs in Blue Yonder’s 2024 survey.[50]
  • 35% of organizations reported higher year-over-year profit margins in Blue Yonder’s 2024 survey.[50]
  • 14% of organizations identified labor as the area most affected by rising costs in Blue Yonder’s 2024 survey.[50]
  • 38% of organizations identified transportation as the area most affected by rising costs in Blue Yonder’s 2024 survey.[50]

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Product & Service

Recurring revenue from digital services remains limited: only 4% of industrial manufacturers succeeded in generating recurring revenue from digital services linked to equipment in 2025.

Product development in the manufacturing industry

  • 22% of U.S. semiconductor and electronic-component companies introduced a product innovation during 2018–2020.[51]
  • 59% of manufacturers had detailed architecture mapping for product planning and development in 2024.[15]
  • 60% of Ohio manufacturers reported investing in new product innovation in 2025.[52]
  • 36% of manufacturers had partially mapped, but not clearly integrated, architecture for product planning and development in 2024.[15]
  • 45% of Ohio manufacturers launched a new product in 2025, down from 58% in 2023.[52]

Product lifecycle in the manufacturing industry

  • 39.9% of digital-twin software sales in 2022 were associated with predictive maintenance in manufacturing applications.[53]
  • 47% of manufacturers had detailed architecture mapping for aftermarket-services optimization in 2024.[15]
  • 11.9% of digital-twin software sales in 2022 were associated with inventory management in manufacturing applications.[53]
  • 25.3% of digital-twin software sales in 2022 were associated with business optimization in manufacturing applications.[53]
  • 17.8% of digital-twin software sales in 2022 were associated with performance monitoring in manufacturing applications.[53]

After-sales in the manufacturing industry

  • 39% of global manufacturers said new service models were central to long-term growth in 2025.[38]
  • Only 4% of industrial manufacturers said they had succeeded in generating recurring revenue from digital services linked to equipment in a 2025 survey.[54]
  • 94% of global manufacturers said new service models had already affected operations in 2025.[38]
  • 28% of global manufacturers had fully scaled artificial intelligence across service operations in 2025.[38]
  • 96% of global manufacturers used some form of artificial intelligence in service delivery in 2025.[38]

Value proposition in the manufacturing industry

  • Manufacturing services generated operating margins 2.5 times higher than new-equipment sales according to Deloitte’s analysis of industrial companies for its 2024 outlook.[27]
  • 38% of DACH manufacturers identified creating new as-a-service offerings as a leading business pressure in 2025.[55]
  • 36% of Middle Eastern manufacturers identified creating new as-a-service offerings as a leading business pressure in 2025.[55]
  • A 0.6% sales increase was associated with French manufacturing firms diversifying into services in research covering 44,324 firms.[56]
  • 41% of UK manufacturers identified creating new as-a-service offerings as a leading business pressure in 2025.[55]

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Sustainability & Ethics

Energy management anchors ESG policy, with 48% of surveyed manufacturing organizations citing it as the most important element in 2024.

Sustainability in the manufacturing industry

  • 48% of surveyed manufacturing organizations said energy management was the most important element of their sustainability or ESG policy in 2024.[57]
  • More than 75% of manufacturing organizations reported being fully prepared to publish ESG performance in 2025.[58]
  • 29% of surveyed manufacturing organizations identified recycling as a leading sustainability or ESG policy priority in 2024.[57]
  • 65% of manufacturing organizations integrated sustainability reporting with financial reporting in 2025.[58]
  • 86% of surveyed manufacturing organizations had a formal, company-wide sustainability or ESG policy in 2024.[57]

ESG in the manufacturing industry

  • 69% of surveyed manufacturers expected supply-chain ESG or sustainability investment to increase in the following year in 2023.[59]
  • 59% of surveyed manufacturers expected their dependence on suppliers for sustainability or ESG goals to increase in 2023.[59]
  • 51.4% of surveyed Japanese-affiliated manufacturing companies in Europe had initiatives for Scope 2 emissions in 2024.[25]
  • 76% of surveyed manufacturers were at the planning or foundational stages of supply-chain ESG maturity in 2023.[59]
  • 25% of surveyed manufacturers had high confidence in suppliers’ ability to support sustainability or ESG goals in 2023.[59]

Ethics in the manufacturing industry

  • 6% of UK businesses reported providing anti-bribery or corruption training to business partners or contractors in 2024.[60]
  • 45% of UK businesses had at least one listed measure in place to manage corruption risks during 2024.[60]
  • 23% of UK businesses reported having a whistleblowing policy in 2024.[60]
  • 16% of UK businesses reported providing anti-bribery or corruption training to their own staff in 2024.[60]
  • 55% of UK businesses had none of the listed measures in place to manage corruption risks during 2024.[60]

CSR in the manufacturing industry

  • Manufacturing companies accounted for 24% of total corporate CSR spending in the previous Indian reporting year.[61]
  • Manufacturing companies produced 289 CSR disclosures in 2020 in the CEIBS sectoral analysis.[62]
  • Manufacturing, IT and energy companies together accounted for 53.02% of total CSR spending among the companies evaluated in India.[61]
  • 804 manufacturing companies represented 43% of 1,871 companies evaluated for corporate social-responsibility activity in India in the reported year.[61]
  • Manufacturing companies produced 406 CSR disclosures in 2022 in the CEIBS sectoral analysis.[62]

Circular economy in the manufacturing industry

  • 3.8% was the EU circular material-use rate for fossil-energy materials and carriers in 2024.[11]
  • The EU circular material-use rate increased by 0.1 percentage points between 2023 and 2024.[11]
  • 23.2% is the EU circular material-use rate targeted for 2030 under the Circular Economy Action Plan.[11]
  • 14.3% was the EU circular material-use rate for non-metallic minerals in 2024.[11]
  • 24.6% of global circular-economy employment was in manufacturing in the reported year.[63]

Carbon footprint in the manufacturing industry

  • 22% of global greenhouse-gas emissions came directly from industry in the UNIDO estimate.[64]
  • 91% of US manufacturing industrial-process emissions were CO2 in 2021.[65]
  • US manufacturing emissions are projected to increase by 17% between 2024 and 2050.[65]
  • Iron and steel, non-metallic minerals, and chemicals and petrochemicals together accounted for 67.3% of manufacturing CO2 emissions in 2022.[20]
  • Iron and steel, cement, and chemical industries accounted for 71% of industrial CO2 emissions in the UNIDO assessment.[64]

15 Statistics

Globalization & Expansion

Geographic sourcing patterns are shifting selectively: executives expected offshore facilities to decline to 28% within three years of 2025.

Globalization in the manufacturing industry

  • 45.6% of EU manufacturing enterprises engaged in both imports and exports in 2023.[11]
  • 73% of EU enterprises sourcing internationally used suppliers within the EU during 2021–2023.[11]
  • 17% of global GDP was represented by trade through global value chains in real terms during 2022–2024.[10]
  • 37% of world value added in electrical equipment came from China in 2024.[10]
  • 45% of world value added in non-ferrous metals came from China in 2024.[10]

Cultural adaptation in the manufacturing industry

  • 24% of manufacturing employers rated multilingual employee communications or translation support as a high-priority initiative in 2024.[28]
  • 29% of manufacturing employers rated cultural competency training as a high-priority initiative in 2024.[28]

Supplier management in the manufacturing industry

  • 19.4% of manufacturing firms reported a full multi-tier supply chain including raw-material sources in 2025.[17]
  • 29.2% of manufacturing firms reported an average supply chain reaching three tiers in 2025.[17]
  • 16.7% of manufacturing firms reported managing four or more supply-chain tiers in 2025.[17]
  • 36.7% of manufacturing firms planned to nearshore or localise 51%–75% of their supply chain in 2025.[17]
  • 20.3% of EU enterprises sourcing internationally cited focusing on core business as a motivation during 2021–2023.[11]

Stakeholder management in the manufacturing industry

  • 68% of manufacturing leaders identified personal growth as an impactful factor for frontline-worker meaning in 2023.[6]
  • 78% of manufacturing leaders identified recognition as an impactful factor for frontline-worker meaning in 2023.[6]
  • 70% of manufacturing leaders said most non-frontline employees were engaged in 2023.[6]
  • 86% of manufacturing leaders identified instilling purpose as an impactful factor for frontline-worker meaning in 2023.[6]
  • 60% of manufacturing leaders identified connectedness to other employees as an impactful factor for frontline-worker meaning in 2023.[6]

Distribution channels in the manufacturing industry

  • 66.6% of U.S. manufacturing shipments were e-commerce transactions in 2024, worth $4.6494 trillion.[71]
  • 43% of apparel manufacturers reported e-commerce adoption in 2024.[72]
  • 22% of furniture and fixtures manufacturers reported e-commerce adoption in 2024.[72]
  • 19% of food manufacturers reported e-commerce adoption in 2024.[72]
  • 21% of electronics manufacturers reported e-commerce adoption in 2024.[72]

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Regional markets

Regional output remains large and measurable; U.S. manufacturing businesses reported US$6.981 trillion in sales, shipments or revenue in 2024.

The manufacturing industry in Australia

  • Manufacturing industry earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation in Australia increased 1.6% in 2024–25 to approximately A$47.1 billion.[73]
  • Manufacturing industry total income in Australia increased 6.7% in 2024–25.[73]
  • 901,000 people were employed in Australian manufacturing at the end of June 2025, up 0.2% from 2024.[73]
  • A$141.973 billion was manufacturing industry value added in Australia in 2024–25, up 4.6% from 2023–24.[73]

The manufacturing industry in United States

  • US$890.775 billion was annual payroll for U.S. manufacturing businesses in 2024.[74]
  • 14.519 million people were employed in U.S. manufacturing on a household-survey annual-average basis in 2025.[30]
  • 12,010,198 employees worked in U.S. manufacturing businesses in 2024, which reported US$6.981 trillion in sales, shipments or revenue.[74]
  • 1,702,155 people were employed in U.S. food manufacturing in 2024, generating US$1.054 trillion in value of shipments.[48]
  • US$918.2 billion was the value of shipments from U.S. chemical manufacturing in 2024.[48]

The manufacturing industry in South Korea

  • ₩752.3 trillion was manufacturing value added in South Korea in 2024, up 11.4% from 2023.[75]
  • ₩2,090.2 trillion was the value of manufacturing shipments in South Korea in 2024, up 4.9% from 2023.[75]
  • 73,890 manufacturing establishments operated in South Korea in 2024, up 0.7% from 2023.[75]
  • ₩282.9 billion was the average value of shipments per manufacturing establishment in South Korea in 2024.[75]
  • 3.046 million people worked in South Korean manufacturing in 2024, up 2.1% from 2023.[75]

The manufacturing industry in Mexico

  • 634,248 manufacturing establishments in Mexico employed 7,190,294 people in 2023.[76]
  • 4,812,329 people were employed in Mexico’s manufacturing industries in 2024, down 1.7% from 2023.[76]
  • 32.6% of the value of manufactured products in Mexico came from transport equipment manufacturing in 2024.[77]
  • 5,210 IMMEX manufacturing establishments in Mexico employed 2,892,555 people in December 2024.[76]
  • 36.5% of people employed in Mexico’s manufacturing industries were women in 2024.[77]

The manufacturing industry in Japan

  • 361.775 trillion yen was the value of manufactured-goods shipments in Japan in 2022.[78]
  • 10,173 overseas affiliates belonged to Japanese manufacturing companies at the end of fiscal 2023.[78]
  • 27.2% was Japan’s overseas production ratio for manufacturing companies in fiscal 2023.[78]
  • 7,751,935 people were engaged in Japan’s manufacturing industry in 2023.[78]
  • 223,391 manufacturing establishments operated in Japan in 2023, excluding individual proprietorships.[78]

Key questions about the Manufacturing Industry

What is the size of global manufacturing value added, and where is it concentrated?
Global manufacturing value added reached $17.6 trillion in 2025. China accounted for 27.4% of global value added in 2025, and East Asia and the Pacific accounted for $7.5 trillion.
How fast is global manufacturing growing in the latest outlook?
UNIDO projected global manufacturing growth of 2.8% in 2025, following 2.9% growth in 2024. The World Bank also reports growth of 2.9% in 2024 as production shifted toward Asia and higher-technology industries.
Which companies lead the manufacturing industry?
Apple leads Gitnux's 2026 manufacturing ranking with an Overall score of 9.2, with $478.8 billion in fiscal 2026 net sales from its product and services ecosystem. Samsung Electronics is the highest-ranked semiconductor manufacturer at 9.1, with 33 manufacturing sites across its global network.
What technology shifts are most visible in manufacturing through 2026?
Automation and AI adoption remain measurable: 8% of manufacturing respondents were using AI in 2024, and 29% of U.S. manufacturers reported using AI or machine learning at facility or network level in 2025. Robots also continue expanding, with 4,663,773 industrial robots operating worldwide in 2024.
How concentrated is manufacturing at the producer level?
Manufacturing is geographically concentrated by value added: China generated $4.82 trillion in 2025 versus $17.60 trillion globally. The next major producers included Germany at $889.6 billion, Japan at $788.5 billion, and India at $532.9 billion.
What pricing pressure is visible in key markets?
Producer prices remained elevated in the U.S.: the producer price index for final demand increased 6.3% year over year in September 2026. In the EU, industrial producer prices increased 0.3% in 2025 after falling 2.5% in 2024.
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