Oecd Handbook On Measuring The Space Economy

This publication provides a summary of the key methodological issues surrounding indicators and statistics on the space sector and the larger space economy.

Much has changed in the space economy over the past decade, with an ever-growing number of countries and business enterprises involved in space activities. Despite progress made in the quality and availability of data, the international comparability of space economy statistics remains limited.

This publication provides a summary of the key methodological issues surrounding indicators and statistics on the space sector and the larger space economy.

This book paints a richly detailed picture of the space industry, its downstream services activities, and its wider economic and social impacts.

Space Economy at a Glance provides a statistical overview of the global space sector and its contributions to economic activity. This new edition provides indicators and statistics based on both official and private data, in over forty countries, and identifies new dynamics in the space sector.

This second edition of The Space Economy at a Glance paints an updated and richly detailed picture of the space industry, its downstream services activities, and its wider economic and social impacts.

The space economy is expanding and becoming increasingly global, driven by the development of ever-more governmental space programmes around the world, the multiplication of commercial actors in value chains, durable digitalisation trends, and new space systems coming of age. This report describes these emerging trends using new and internationally comparable data and indicators.

After decades of innovation, satellites now play a discrete but pivotal role in the efficient functioning of modern societies and their economic development. This publication provides the findings from a OECD Space Forum project on the state of innovation in the space sector.