Rwanda
Civil space spending in Africa (USD), 2022-2024
Nine African nations have preliminary budget data available for 2024. As in 2023, seven nations in the region maintained or increased spending, while Egypt and Ethiopia decreased space budgets.
2020 TSRQ1 – Economy: New Nations in Space
Since 2012, there has been a significant uptick in the number of developing nations entering the space community annually. From 1957 until 2011, the average number of countries entering orbital space per year was two. Between 2012 and 2019, the average number of countries entering space annually increased to four.