2025 Base Year Estimate
Comprehensive sizing, growth trajectories, and sectoral economic valuation (2025 – 2030) across 54 member states.
2025 Base Year Estimate
51.7% Expansion
Dominant IndustryGNSS Services
Historical growth track and forecast of the total African space economy, in Billions USD
| Total Valuation | |
|---|---|
| 2025 | $25.91B |
| 2026E | $28.34B |
| 2027E | $30.62B |
| 2028E | $33.28B |
| 2029E | $36.18B |
| 2030E | $39.32B |
Core ecosystem valuation dynamic across African space programmes.
| Value | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial Space Industry | $25.28B | 97.6% |
| Public Space Investment & Expenditure | $626.69M | 2.4% |
Commercial economic volume, proportional market distribution, and YoY growth trajectories across pan-African industries (2025 Base: $25.91B)
$19,087,015,320Dominant Segment$4,053,250,000Commercial Media$1,504,714,746Broadband & VSAT$626,688,006Public Funding$417,044,295Upstream Hardware$222,710,740Analytics & GIS| Value | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Satellite Manufacturing Projects | $294.81M | 70.7% |
| Component Manufacturing | $81.05M | 19.4% |
| Ground Segment Infrastructure | $41.18M | 9.9% |
| Value | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| FSS & MSS Wholesale Services (GEO) | $1.18B | 78.2% |
| NGSO Broadband & Narrowband | $328.04M | 21.8% |
Disaggregated economic valuation, comparative sizing, and market distribution across African space sub-sectors (2025 Base: $25.91B)
Disaggregated space budgets, private domestic revenue, and bilateral defense space allocations
Comprehensive space economy sizing and disaggregated national expenditure rankings across all 54 African Union member states are currently undergoing multi-agency census benchmarking and will be published in the 2027 edition.
Methodology Census in Progress • 24 of 54 National Audits Completed