
North Africa’s Manufacturing Landscape Offers Scale, Export Platforms and Specialisation
Egypt anchors domestic manufacturing scale, Morocco leads industrial export integration and Tunisia is a high-intensity specialist.

Egypt anchors domestic manufacturing scale, Morocco leads industrial export integration and Tunisia is a high-intensity specialist.

The new framework could unlock growth in non-commodity exports, especially food, autos and industrial intermediates.

India’s momentum is anchored in broad-based household demand, supported by urbanisation, middle-class expansion and consumer import intensity.

Most firms now use AI, but enterprise-wide scaling remains rare, meaning productivity gains are concentrated in a small group of larger firms.

Combining high-tech export platforms, scale-driven domestic markets and a global trade hub, ASEAN-6 is a uniquely diversified industrial ecosystem.

Central and western provinces led growth in 2025, while several northern and southern regions expanded well below the national average.