Yearly US Manufacturing Capacity 1946-Now

[average guy]

does anybody have these numbers?
it could be manufacturing SECTOR in $ of output.
not looking for numbers of people employed in manufacturing or
number of companies small and large.
i think capacity is best.

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[BWV]

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/MANEMP.txt

http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/table1_2.htm

 

[average guy]

bwv
just looking at the first list.
i don't like those numbers.
how much has the population grown
in those years?
looks like a peak in 1980 of
19 million employed in manufacturing.


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[BWV]

sounds right - the numbers that get thrown around a lot is that the US, in inflation-adjusted terms, makes 3 times the stuff with half the workforce than it did in the 1970s

 

[average guy]

bwv
ehht! no adjustments yet!
what about the population of the US
from 1946-2011?
no applying the percentage of Americans
working in manufacturing.
seems like population was @150 million in early 60's
and we passed 300 million recently.

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