Manufacturing Magazine July 2026 | Page 12

STATISTICS

Source: UNIDO Industrial Development Report 2026

Demographic and technological changes will create the need for

A BILLION new jobs worldwide by 2050

The share of Chinese manufacturing in global production surged from

3 % to more than

30 % between 1990 and 2022

Manufacturing is attributed to

64 %

of growth episodes over the last 50 years