ITALY – According to a recent publication from CSIL, world production of office furniture is worth about USD 53 billion in 2014, representing 11% of total world furniture production.

About 55% of world office furniture is manufactured in high income countries, including 44% in the seven large industrial economies which in order of office furniture production are the US, Japan, Germany, Canada, Italy, France and the United Kingdom, and 11% in other high income countries). The balance (45%) is manufactured in middle and low income countries among which the largest producers are China and Brazil. Leading office furniture manufacturers are spread all over the world, with companies/groups having headquarters both in high income countries (e.g. Japan, the US, and some EU countries) and in middle and low income countries (e.g. China, India, Poland and South Africa).