North Africa Is Africa’s Most Industrialized Region – Report(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – North Africa remains the most advanced region in industrial development in Africa, according to a new report from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Union (AU) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The report entitled, “Africa Industrialization Index (AII)”, provides a country-level assessment of 52 African countries’ progress across 19 key indicators. It also finds that 37 of 52 African countries have become more industrialized over the past eleven years. The index also ranks African countries’ industrialization across three dimensions: performance, direct determinants and indirect determinants. The Africa Industrialization Index was one of two new tools presented during the event.