Structural Change Basic Indicators – ADB – ADBI Innovation and Structural Transformation Database

The database shows sectoral shares in household demand, total demand, and value added.
The amount of structural change is measured by changes in these shares through the Norm of Absolute Values (NAV) indicator.
The database also provides an overview of structural change in international trade, both from the point of view of
global value chainsThe production of a single commodity or service can be split into many small parts (this is referred to as fragmentation). When these small parts are performed by separate production locations and/or firms, the production process takes the form of a value chain, with many parties contributing value. When this chain is dispersed over various geographical locations, we speak of a global value chain (GVCs).
and the
fourth industrial revolutionA series of related radical innovative breakthroughs centered around automation and digitization technologies. By applying machine learning and large-scale connectivity, these technologies have a large impact on a broad range of existing fields, such as chemistry and mechanics
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For global value chains, the shares of consumption goods, intermediate goods and capital goods (as well as further breakdowns of these categories) in exports and imports are provided.
For fourth industrial revolution technologies, the database distinguishes different fields in terms of traded products, and provides shares in exports and imports of these fields.
To identify relative strengths and weaknesses in the trade position of economies, the database provides indicators of revealed comparative advantage (RCA) for exports, and Comparative Import Intensity (CII) for imports.