Mexico and Brazil lead Latin America in electronics manufacturing

Mexico and Brazil are the two Latin American countries with the largest share of global digital hardware manufacturing, according to data cited by Bloomberg Línea from Ember’s report “The Age of Power.”

China dominates the global digital hardware industry, accounting for 58.8% of the manufacturing of smartphones, computers, displays, printed circuit boards and other electronic components.

Mexico ranks ninth worldwide, representing 1.2% of global digital hardware manufacturing capacity. Its position places it ahead of Germany and Singapore, which account for 0.7% each. According to Diana Becerra Peña, a professor at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico’s presence among the world’s leading manufacturers is the result of decades of industrial specialization and operational competitiveness, supported in part by the trade agreement with the United States and Canada, known as the USMCA.

Brazil ranks 14th, accounting for 0.4% of global technology equipment production. Brazilian consultant Vivaldo José Breternitz described the figure as relatively small and attributed the country’s reduced participation to years of deindustrialization, which he said weakened its ability to develop more sophisticated components.