Sub-Saharan Africa: Manufacturing, value added (current US$)

Key figures

What the numbers say

In 2025, Sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing, value added (current US$) rose 7.6% on 2024 (from US$197.66 billion to US$212.72 billion).

Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +4.6% and a typical year strayed about 12.9% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 29.3% in 2003 and the biggest yearly fall was 35.7% in 1999. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about US$5.56 billion a year. A straight line explains 56% of the movement over 10 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

How it compares

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What this measures

Manufacturing includes industries classified in ISIC (Rev. 3) major division C and is defined as the physical or chemical transformation of materials or components into new products. Value added is the contribution to the economy by a producer or an industry or an institutional sector, which is estimated by the total value of output produced and deducting the total value of intermediate consumption of goods and services used to produce that output. This indicator is expressed in current prices, meaning no adjustment has been made to account for price changes over time. This indicator is expressed in United States dollars.

Limitations: In establishing classifications systems compilers must define both the types of activities to be described and the units whose activities are to be reported. There are many possibilities, and the choices affect how the statistics can be interpreted and how useful they are in analyzing economic behavior. The ISIC emphasizes commonalities in the production process and is explicitly not intended to measure outputs (for which there is a newly developed Central Product Classification). Nevertheless, the ISIC views an activity as defined by "a process resulting in a homogeneous set of products."

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.

All 45 values

Manufacturing, value added (current US$) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — US$1.5 billion (2024)
• Algeria — US$25.46 billion (2024)
• Bahrain — US$9.74 billion (2025)
• Djibouti — US$219.41 million (2024)
• Egypt, Arab Rep. — US$52.96 billion (2025)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — US$97.86 billion (2024)
• Iraq — US$10.17 billion (2025)
• Israel — US$60.96 billion (2024)
• Jordan — US$10.7 billion (2025)
• Kuwait — US$12.17 billion (2025)

More economic policy & debt data for Sub-Saharan Africa

• Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments (BoP, current US$) — US$3.07 billion (2025)
• Portfolio equity, net inflows (BoP, current US$) — −US$459.34 million (2025)
• GDP (current US$) — US$2.21 trillion (2025)
• GDP (constant 2015 US$) — US$2.13 trillion (2025)
• GDP per capita (current US$) — US$1,673 (2025)
• GDP per capita (constant 2015 US$) — US$1,615 (2025)
• GDP (annual % growth) — 4.14% (2025)
• GDP per capita (annual % growth) — 1.64% (2025)
• Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts (BoP, current US$) — US$473.66 million (2025)

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Questions people ask

What is Sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing, value added (current US$)?

US$212.72 billion in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1981?

It is up 193.21% from US$72.55 billion in 1981 (2.47% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$231.87 billion in 2022 and the lowest US$41.46 billion in 1986.

Is the latest change in manufacturing, value added (current US$) unusual for Sub-Saharan Africa?

In 2025, Sub-Saharan Africa's manufacturing, value added (current US$) rose 7.6% on 2024 (from US$197.66 billion to US$212.72 billion). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +4.6% and a typical year strayed about 12.9% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.2 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator NV.IND.MANF.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Country official statistics, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); National Accounts data files, Central Banks; Staff estimates, World Bank (WB) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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