Global industrial development trends: dynamics and regional aspects

Abstract

The article analyzes changes in the spatial structure of world industry (including high-tech) at the global and regional level in dynamics. The processes in the mining and manufacturing industries of the world are characterized. The article also presents the author’s rating of countries by the level of industrial development during the transition to a post-industrial economy based on a matrix of data on 4 indicators of the level of development of the manufacturing industry in 117 countries of the world. The calculations were carried out on the basis of official sources of information from the World Bank, UNIDO, the US Science Foundation, etc. It is shown that at present the rating of the most industrial regions of the world is headed by Asia. The world industry leaders are China, the United States and other developed countries, as well as some developing countries in Asia and Latin America. It is shown that the fragmentation of industrial production in the context of globalization contributed to the spread of new technologies and the development of the industrialization process in the world. In the group of leaders in the author’s rating are mainly developed countries. But there is a shift in industrial development towards a group of developing countries. At the same time, the process of differentiation of developing countries is recorded. Although a significant part of developing countries (especially African countries) still represent the “deep periphery” of the world industry. It was concluded that the global “industrial landscape” in the context of the transition to the digital economy and in the context of the COVID19 pandemic will change.