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[email protected] FOREWORD Foreword The OECD publication The Space Economy in Figures: How Space Contributes to the Global Economy provides an original overview of the global space sector. This report is the fourth in a series of OECD publications dedicated to the space economy (previous reports were published in 2007, 2011 and 2014). In a little more than a decade, the space sector has experienced considerable development throughout the world, with greater impacts on the larger economy boosted by both globalisation and digitalisation. It is als