UK Manufacturing Statistics

 SOURCE: http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk-manufacturing-statistics/

Manufacturing contributes £6.7tr to the global economy. Contrary to common belief, UK manufacturing is strong with the UK currently the 11th largest manufacturing nation in the world. Manufacturing makes up 11% of UK GVA and 54% of UK exports and directly employs 2.6 million people.

Despite the decline since the 1970s, when manufacturing contributed 25% of UK GDP, the UK ranks second globally in aerospace manufacturing. In the half-year from January to June 2014, the UK-based car industry had its best year in new car sales in 9 years.

1.28 million new cars were sold during the period, a rise of 10% compared to the same period in 2013. While the chemical and pharmaceutical industries add £20m per day to the UK balance of trade. Underpinning these important statistics is an average annual productivity increase of 3.6% – two and a half times greater than the UK economy as a whole.
While the contribution of manufacturing to GDP has declined on paper, many of the services provided to manufacturers which would have once been considered part of manufacturing, such as catering, cleaning, building services, security etc, are now allocated into different areas of the economy. However, those contributions are directly reliant on manufacturing for continued business and could actually be considered as a part of manufacturing’s GDP input.

Rank	Country/Region	(Millions of $US)	Year
	World	11,185,841	2011
1	China	2,330,684	2011
	European Union	2,312,723	2013
2	United States	1,800,500	2011
	Eurozone	1,793,895	2013
3	Japan	1,073,277	2012
4	Germany	710,951	2013
5	South Korea	370,393	2013
6	Italy	284,477	2013
7	Russia	266,692	2013
8	Brazil	250,149	2013
9	France	249,074	2013
10	India	223,138	2013
11	United Kingdom	219,036	2013
12	Mexico	215,689	2013
13	Indonesia	205,768	2013
14	Canada	169,120	2008
15	Spain	166,142	2013
16	Thailand	127,569	2013
17	Turkey	125,598	2013
18	Switzerland	113,481	2012
19	Australia	104,056	2013
20	Netherlands	91,602	2013

Countries by Manufacturing output using the most recent known data thanks to The World Bank and Wikipedia.

UK Balance of Trade

UK Manufacturing 2014 – The Facts

Every two years manufacturers’ organisation EEF publishes a fact card covering manufacturing GVA, employment, the % of manufacturing in the region’s economies, Britain’s place in the global manufacturing league table, R&D spending and more.
EEF (The Manufacturers’ Organisation) Manufacturing Facts and Figures

Statistics by Sector

British Aerospace Industry

Beth Pickering, Airbus in the UK, Broughton

• 100,000+ direct jobs in UK Aerospace
• ADS has over 850 members (from SMEs to globals)
• Annual earnings = £24.2bn
• Revenue: £12.4bn
• 75% of turnover to export markets
• 17% global market share

British Automotive Industry

A worker at the Jaguar Land Rover plant helps put together a Range Rover Evoque.

• More than 550 UK members of SMMT
• £6bn investment in past two years
• 2.6 million cars registered in the UK 2013
• Two out of the top 10 selling cars for 2013, the Vauxhall Astra (4th) and the Nissan Qashqai (6th), are made in the UK, while the Ford Fiesta was the UK’s best selling car.
• 1.58m vehicles (81% exported) and 2.5m engines (62% exported) made in the UK last year
• 2,350 automotive suppliers in UK, employing 82,000 people
• Typically £55bn annual turnover
• £27bn revenue in 2011
• 720,000 employed across automotive industry, 140,000 directly employed in manufacturing
• More than 75,000 young people employed as apprentices over the last 5 years. 18,000 in automotive retail at any one time

British Chemical Industry

The Baker Hughes Eco-Centre facility can process in excess of 30,000 tonnes (33,000 tons) of drill cuttings and 14,000 cubic meters (3.7 million gallons) of liquid waste, or slops, annually.

• £60bn revenue in 2012
• 600,000 people are currently employed in the industry
• Represents 15% of UK manufacturing GVA
• Has an average employee cost of £42,000 per head
• Added £20m to the UK balance of trade every day for the last twenty years

(Information courtesy of http://www.cia.org.uk)

British Construction Industry

Spiral Construction are the UK’s leading manufacturer of spiral and helical staircases and have been nominated by Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP for St Ives

• 1 in 14 of the UK workforce is employed in construction – nearly 2 million people
• Provides 88,000 new job opportunities yearly
• Employs just under 200,000 women in the sector
• More than 35% of construction employees run their own companies
• More than a quarter of employers have recruited a school leaver in the last 2-3 years
• Nearly 50% of employers in the building services engineering industry take part in the modern apprenticeship scheme

British Defence Industry

BAE Systems Ambush submarine.

• £35bn annual UK turnover
• The UK is the world’s second biggest defence exporter behind the US
• Employs 300,000 overall in the UK
• 9,000 defence companies including small businesses exist in the UK
• BAE Systems – the UK’s largest defence company – currently employs 40,000 domestically
• 10% of UK manufacturing is made up by defence

British Electronics Industry

A British firm has made the world’s largest all-electric pipe bender.

• Worth £78bn a year
• Is the world’s fifth largest in terms of production
• Employs over 850,000 people
• This makes up 2.9% of the UK’s workforce
• In semiconductors, almost 80% of the activity comes from foreign direct investment
• The UK is home to 40% of Europe’s semiconductor design houses

British Food & Drink Industry

Cadbury Fingers in production.

• Turnover of £76bn in 2012, the UK’s largest manufacturing sector
• Accounts for 15% of all UK manufacturing GVA
• Employs 400,000 workers domestically, 15% of manufacturing workforce
• Exports over £12bn of food and non-alcoholic drink products a year, 77% of which go to the EU
• Invested over £1bn in to R&D in 2011, resulting in over 8,500 new products
• Businesses have reduced rate of injuries by over 50% over the last 20 years

(Information courtesy of http://www.fdf.org.uk)

British Furniture Industry

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg hammers a nail into a piece of furniture during a visit to The Chesterfield Company in Salford.

• Over 100,000 employees within the trade
• UK market set to surpass £15bn by 2018
• £10.73bn revenue in 2012
• 7.5% of overall furniture sales are made online, a figure which is increasing
• Living room furniture dominates the market share by as much as 90%

(Information courtesy of The Chesterfield Company)

British Plastics Industry

The ECO Plastics sorting facility.

• 7,500 companies in the sector
• £19bn turnover
• Exports valued at £6.7bn
• 35% of manufactured plastics products exported
• Employs 180,000 people
• 2.5m tonnes of plastics materials produced annually

(Information courtesy of http://www.bpf.co.uk)

British Steel Industry

An artist’s impression of Man of Steel sculpture, South Yorkshire

• Contributed £2.9bn to the UK balance of trade in 2011
• More waste steel is recovered in the UK and recycled than all other materials combined
• Each tonne of scrap recycled by the industry saves 1.9 tonnes of iron ore and 0.6 tonnes of coal

(Stats courtesy of http://www.scrib.org.uk)

British Textile Industry

(l-r) Ashley Wild, Joanne Williamson, Stewart McGuffie (Allied Textiles’ chief executive) and Steven McGawn.

• Comprises over 79,000 businesses, employing over 340,000 people
• Gross value added for the sector in the UK is estimated at over £11.5 billion, with GVA per head measured at an average of £34,220

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