Manufacturing share of GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa
Manufacturing produced 9.6% of GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2025. The value for 2025 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1981.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Sub-Saharan Africa, 2025
9.6%
Change from 2024
−0.3percentage points
World, 2025
14.9%
Manufacturing share of GDP in Sub-Saharan Africa over time
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% of GDP. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Sub-Saharan Africa | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9.6% | 14.9% |
| 2024 | 9.9% | 14.9% |
| 2023 | 10.2% | 15.2% |
| 2022 | 10.1% | 15.7% |
| 2021 | 10.0% | 16.4% |
| 2020 | 9.7% | 15.9% |
| 2019 | 10.1% | 16.0% |
| 2018 | 10.4% | 16.4% |
| 2017 | 10.3% | 16.3% |
| 2016 | 10.3% | 16.2% |
| 2015 | 10.2% | 16.4% |
| 2014 | 10.2% | 16.1% |
| 2013 | 10.1% | 15.9% |
| 2012 | 9.7% | 16.1% |
| 2011 | 9.8% | 16.1% |
| 2010 | 9.8% | 16.0% |
| 2009 | 10.6% | 15.5% |
| 2008 | 10.3% | 16.1% |
| 2007 | 10.8% | 16.3% |
| 2006 | 11.1% | 16.3% |
| 2005 | 12.3% | 16.4% |
| 2004 | 13.0% | 16.6% |
| 2003 | 13.3% | 16.7% |
| 2002 | 12.9% | 16.9% |
| 2001 | 13.9% | 17.3% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of −0.3 percentage points from 9.9% in 2024.
- Since 2015, when it was 10.2%, the figure has changed by −0.6 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2025 was 14.9%.