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Manufacturing and industry in Africa

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Manufacturing, value added (2025)

  1. Eswatini: 28.1%
  2. Equatorial Guinea: 22.3%
  3. Gabon: 19.1%
  4. Morocco: 14.9%
  5. Zimbabwe: 14.9%
  6. Cameroon: 14.6%
  7. Egypt: 14.5%
  8. Uganda: 14.5%
  9. Senegal: 13.2%
  10. Burundi: 13.1%

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators

Industry (including construction), value added (2025)

  1. Libya: 73.2%
  2. Gabon: 47.2%
  3. Equatorial Guinea: 41.4%
  4. Democratic Republic of the Congo: 39.7%
  5. Zimbabwe: 37.1%
  6. Republic of the Congo: 35.6%
  7. Zambia: 35.3%
  8. Algeria: 34.8%
  9. Sudan: 33.6%
  10. Eswatini: 33.6%

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators