UNIDO Industrial Development Report 2026

United Nations Industrial Development Organization, 2025. Industrial Development Report 2026. The Future of Industrialization. Building Future-ready Industries for Sustainable Development. Vienna.

On November 26, 2025, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) launched their Industrial Development Report (IDR) at the Global Industry Summit in Riyadh. The Pardee Institute supported IDR 2026 by providing forecasts and scenario analysis to explore industrial development scenarios out to 2050 and assess how developing countries could leverage an Industrial Push to advance economic and human development. The following Pardee Institute experts supported the production of this edition of the report: Taylor Hanna, Abdelrahman Ibrahim, Collin J. Meisel, José Solórzano, Yutang Xiong, Solikha Makhmatova and Victoria Pepera.