Platform Documentation

How the figures on the Data Hub are defined and calculated.

Market Valuation Methodology

African space economy, 2025 – 2030

Total valuation. The 2025 base-year total of $25.91B is the sum of 9 sub-segments across 6 industry domains.
Domains and shares. A domain's value is the sum of its sub-segments. A share is that value divided by the total.
Commercial Space Industry. Satellite communications, Earth observation, GNSS and hardware.
Public Space Investment & Expenditure. Space budget allocations, government appropriations and public institutional funding.
Forecasts. Years marked "E" are estimates. Each one keeps the 2025 split of 97.6% commercial and 2.4% public.
Growth. Expansion is the total change from 2025 to 2030E. Compound annual growth is the steady yearly rate that produces the same change.
Country-level data. National valuations are planned for the 2027 edition.