Delivery From the Sky: A Global Look at Where Drone Delivery Stands Today

Drone delivery has moved from concept to daily reality, with operators now completing regular deliveries across five continents. In Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta, some Walmart customers are already ordering by drone three times a week. In Rwanda, a new $150 million U.S. State Department deal with Zipline could put drone delivery within reach of 130 million people. This report gives you a clear, region-by-region view of where the market actually stands today, and what's still standing between here and true scale.

Inside, you'll find:

  • North America's regulatory bottleneck: why Part 108 is the single biggest key to unlocking regular U.S. deliveries, and how Canada's newly enacted BVLOS rules compare

  • Europe's trust gap: how the EASA framework and U-space initiative give operators a technical head start, and why community pushback recently paused one of the region's most established operators

  • China's state-driven buildout: inside the low-altitude economy strategy projected to reach nearly $600 billion by 2030, and the skepticism from analysts who call the projections overstated

  • Latin America's proof of concept: how Brazil's Speedbird Aero has run commercial drone delivery since 2020, and what its new multimodal partnership with iFood could mean for scaling beyond one country

  • Africa's medical delivery track record: how Zipline's decade of operations in Rwanda built the confidence behind a first-of-its-kind, pay-for-performance funding model now expanding across five countries

Download the report today to see how each region is solving the same three challenges, technology, regulation, and community buy-in, in a different order, and what that means for where the industry is headed next.