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‌Output at basic prices covers the value of all goods produced for sale, including unsold goods, and all receipts for services rendered. Output furthermore covers the market equivalent of goods and services produced for own use, such as own account capital formation, services of owner-occupied dwellings and agricultural products produced by farmers for own consumption. For more information see the Background Notes.

The following set of four treemap charts illustrate the proportional composition of the total by each A21 sector in a particular year (1995, 2005, 2010, 2019). Clicking on a treemap enlarges the image and offers options to look at the four treemaps as a slideshow, allowing for comparisons over time. The value and rank of each A21 sector are also provided in the tables below. This structure is repeated across each thematic Chapter. Further details on the composition of the A21 and A10 sectors are provided in the charts and tables and in the Background Notes

When examined by A21 sector, Manufacturing (C), Information & Communication (J) and Financial & Insurance activities (K) were the largest sectors by Output in both 1995 and 2019. Construction (F), the fourth largest sector by Output in 1995, increased to the second largest in 2005. Construction (F) then declined to the tenth largest sector by Output in 2010 before recovering to the sixth largest in 2019. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (A) declined from the sixth biggest sector by Output in 1995 to the fourteenth biggest in 2010 before recovering slightly to the twelfth largest in 2019.

Figure 2.1 Proportional composition of Output by A21 sector, 1995-2019

Table 2.1 Output by NACE A21 sector, 1995-2019

Table 2.2 Output by NACE A21 sector by rank, 1995-2019 (1 = biggest sector by value, 20 = smallest sector by value)

Table 2.3 Output by NACE A10 sector in constant market prices, 2013-2019 (chain linked annually and referenced to year 2018)

SECTOR/TIMEManufacturingConstructionInformation and CommunicationOther
199532894.4051578851.50302611674.03834660697.279418
199635689.819289647.38396112940.90840764768.815958
199743660.9735711389.9922516448.335271782.564734
199853867.23554513919.29087119096.36806382580.117355
199961455.43154316905.47833722974.44441390354.824943
200070631.17943920987.68905124613.313799107070.790409
200186710.50893424470.96312425548.231425116833.77611
200292727.11412326258.67022525582.108238128240.663015
200393345.31296129023.74300927545.265387144285.790012
200495214.57420534503.40498526662.552399158277.04046
200599924.86397540225.99662231866.336944173014.906786
2006107259.11755947904.33086435936.699032195304.667856
2007110057.61445249865.85790937108.555672222530.961713
2008106169.51411341256.93761243193.982664231474.504551
2009104473.69439516765.20911942957.959937209384.448391
201090103.76137212774.77332647990.028817204155.338547
201193975.0605229955.03565943909.34436183805.298152
2012101917.8217581.86458761768.584689203251.876553
2013105622.349328.54859470960.136241207115.323689
2014116977.13011213404.84100676659.545919208561.325777
2015192217.93607515031.23718785515.76856224146.899455
2016194951.72147319489.44419381661.223849247775.308669
2017195395.86005924573.13483890707.718975261489.607264
2018211604.40709326694.383496117231.069401274522.52722
2019221745.93299528872.552306123940.080304293064.261799

In the above figure, a version of which is repeated across Chapters, the 1995-2019 time-series of some notable sectors of the economy are displayed.

Manufacturing (C) was the biggest single A21 sector of the economy over the entire 1995-2019 period. Information and Communication (J) was the second biggest sector in 2019. These two sectors dominated and combined they comprised 51.8% of total Output across the economy in 2019, which was an increase from 39.1% in 1995.

Construction (F) which had lower Output than Information and Communication in 1995, increased to have higher Output than Information and Communication up to 2007, but had Output which was less than a quarter of Information and Communication in 2019.

The Other category in the figure above is total Output less Manufacturing,  Information and Communication and Construction. Sector figures can be found in the tables above and in the full 1995-2019 time series available in the CSO's StatBank database.

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