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Fastest Growing Industries in Global by Revenue Growth (%) in 2025

  • 1. Global Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing

    2025 Revenue Growth: 15.3%

    The global commercial aircraft manufacturing industry has demonstrated remarkable resilience and growth momentum despite facing significant operational challenges in recent years. After recovering from pandemic-related disruptions, the industry achieved robust expansion with revenue reaching $233.3 billion in 2025, representing impressive year-over-year growth of 12.6%. This performance reflects a CAGR of 6.0% during the current period, driven by surging global air travel demand, fleet modern...

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  • 2. Global Candy & Chocolate Manufacturing

    2025 Revenue Growth: 10.1%

    The Global Candy & Chocolate Manufacturing industry has seen considerable changes in recent years, driven by overarching consumer trends and shifting market dynamics. As a multi-billion-dollar industry, it has adeptly responded to evolving tastes, health concerns and sustainability demands. Recent indicators show strong growth, propelled by innovation and a sharper focus on consumer preferences. Despite economic uncertainties and supply chain disruptions, the indust...

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  • 3. Global Accounting Services

    2025 Revenue Growth: 7.3%

    Global accounting companies continue to benefit from robust demand across core markets, as the need for quality and efficient accounting services persists. Economic expansion in developed countries and high productivity growth in low-income nations fueled world GDP growth. Increasing M&A activity, particularly in developing markets such as the Middle East and Asia, broadened the scope of demand for accounting services ranging from consulting to auditing. However, elevated interest rates, ...

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  • 4. Global Airport Operation

    2025 Revenue Growth: 6.1%

    Aviation travel has climbed sharply, with pent-up demand pushing passenger counts past pre-pandemic levels by mid-period and continuing through the end of the timeframe. This growth strained airport infrastructure, resulting in visible congestion and operational bottlenecks at many facilities. In response, airports expanded terminal capacity to keep pace with the wave of flights entering rapidly expanding countries, driving up costs late in the period. US airports, restricted by passenger fac...

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  • 5. Global Public Relations Agencies

    2025 Revenue Growth: 6.0%

    Public relations agencies have benefited as companies have looked to the industry to help them effectively leverage the power of digital media. Still, the industry's success is tied to clients' advertising and marketing budgets, which in turn depend on the general state of the global economy. As business confidence rose in the years following the pandemic, marketing and communications budgets increased in lockstep, allowing firms to increase spending on PR globally. Concurrently, the industry...

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  • 6. Global HR & Recruitment Services

    2025 Revenue Growth: 5.8%

    HR and recruitment companies rely on a businesses' desire to outsource their recruitment process and human resource management activities. Regulation, especially for temporary employees, can hamstring providers, as this makes it more difficult to operate. More liberal labor laws in developed nations have been essential to HR and recruitment companies' growth. Large companies are now focusing on emerging markets that will undergo the same process in the future. COVID-19 temporarily put a halt ...

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  • 7. Global Military Aircraft & Aerospace Manufacturing

    2025 Revenue Growth: 5.7%

    Global military aircraft and aerospace manufacturers encompass an extensive range of countries, products, technological developments and operational capacities. The industry's unique correlation with national security ensures its continued growth and long-term success. Leading companies benefit from robust government spending, favorable contract terms and nearly impenetrable market shares. Recent conflicts have especially driven revenue, with European, Middle Eastern and East Asian allies sto...

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  • 8. Global Life & Health Insurance Carriers

    2025 Revenue Growth: 5.1%

    Global life and health carriers have experienced major revenue swings in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic depressed life insurance demand but boosted health insurance uptake and spending, ultimately leading to a rise in revenue in 2020. The economic recovery pushed incomes up in 2021, while high inflation and plunging stock prices led to a substantial drop in revenue in 2022. Interest rate hikes in many countries from 2022 to 2024 enhanced recessionary fears, hindering downstream demand fo...

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  • 9. Global Advertising Agencies

    2025 Revenue Growth: 5.1%

    Advertising agencies have fared well globally as the proliferation of digital media has expanded ads' access to their target audiences. In developed markets, burgeoning economic activity and rising consumer spending have enabled ad spending from downstream industries to increase, even as emerging markets have lagged. At the same time, agencies have responded to the digital shift by overhauling practices, adopting data-driven and programmatic strategies as legacy media has declined in relevanc...

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  • 10. Global Internet Service Providers

    2025 Revenue Growth: 5.0%

    The global internet service providers (ISP) industry has grown steadily over the past five years, shaped by rising demand for high-capacity connectivity and intensified competition from new market entrants. Rapid adoption of remote work, streaming services, online learning and smart devices has driven households and enterprises to rely more heavily on broadband. Governments have supported expansion with subsidies for rural coverage and mandates to improve affordability, which encouraged fiber...

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