Africa Industrialization Day

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  This report presents observed growth rates and estimates of world manufacturing production for the fourth quarter of 2024, as well as revised estimates for the third quarter of 2024. The figures are based on indices of industrial production (IIP) collected by UNIDO Statistics from national data sources. Currently, quarterly IIPs are available for 119 countries, corresponding to 97.3 per cent of global manufacturing value added (MVA). As shown in Figure B.1, major data gaps are still present, mostly in Africa and some subregions of Asia and Oceania. These estimates are replaced as soon as the officially reported values become available in national statistical publications. The present report implements revision 4 of the International Standard for Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities.  InternationalStandard Industrial Classification ofAll Economic Activities (ISIC), Rev.4 . United Nations, 2008, p. 308. (ISIC Rev.4). For countries that publish monthly/quarterly...

  Sustained—and sustainable—economic growth is the goal of developing countries worldwide. —It is the key to reducing and eliminating poverty, avoiding marginalization in a rapidly globalizing world, improving material standards of living, and assisting the peoples of those countries to attain a better and more satisfying way of life.  UNIDO is there to help developing countries to achieve these goals. —It does this by providing support for the build-up of productive capacities, to the extent that developing countries will eventually be able to rely on their own domestic resources to fi nance their growth, while at the same time becoming more attractive for capital infl ows that can accelerate the process still further.  Please contact publications@unido.org for further information concerning UNIDO publications. For more information about UNIDO, please visit us at www.unido.org