The African Development Bank Group will launch the 2025 edition of the Africa Industrialization Index (AII 2025) during its 2026 Annual Meetings in Brazzaville. Alongside this, the inaugural Africa Industrial Investment Barometer (AfIIB) will also be released, offering new insights into industrial investment flows across the continent. Both reports are expected to provide key findings that will guide discussions at the meetings.
The AII 2025, themed “AfCFTA: Advancing the Unfinished Agenda of Regional Industrialization,” maps Africa’s industrial hubs and examines how regional integration can stimulate private investment by creating larger and more competitive economic spaces. The index evaluates countries using 19 indicators covering manufacturing performance, capital, labor, infrastructure, business environment, and macroeconomic stability.
The AfIIB complements the index by offering a more detailed view of private‑sector investment. It tracks industrial diversification, attractiveness, and productive anchoring, while also analyzing the technological, social, environmental, and territorial dimensions of industrial projects. This provides a granular perspective on the structure and quality of investments across Africa.
Together, the two reports align with the overarching theme of the Bank Group’s Annual Meetings: mobilizing Africa’s development financing at scale in a fragmented world. They highlight the importance of industrialization and investment as drivers of regional integration, competitiveness, and sustainable growth.
