In a global economic environment increasingly characterized by fragmented and internationally distributed production processes and by trade in intermediates, the necessity for pertinent quantitative information of sufficient granularity is more urgent than ever. The input-output economic analysis framework provides an ideal system for depicting and analyzing productive trading activities which are so integrated in the globalized world.

To address the increasing demand for such information and specifically to facilitate analysis work related to the Asia and the Pacific Region, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has produced Multiregional Input-Output (MRIO) Tables building on the World Input-Output Database (Timmer et al. 2015) to cover 29 Asia and the Pacific economies, namely: Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Fiji, Georgia, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taipei,China, Thailand, and Viet Nam. This has facilitated the production and analysis of global value chain related statistics for Asian economies. Economies explicitly identified in the ADB MRIO account for at least 93% of the world Gross Domestic Product.

ADB compiles MRIO tables at current prices for 62 economies and aggregated Rest of the World. More recent tables at current prices will cover 72 economies in addition to the Rest of the World.

Note: We are currently in the process of revising the full series of MRIO tables to incorporate the latest published official statistics from national and international sources. At this stage, the revised MRIO tables are available only for the years 2018 to 2023. Thus, the tables for 2000 to 2017 may not be directly comparable with the revised series.