In charts: 7 global shifts defining 2025 so far | World
2025 has been marked by significant global shifts, including increased geopolitical instability, the accelerating impact of AI and a changing labour market.
2025 has been marked by significant global shifts, including increased geopolitical instability, the accelerating impact of AI and a changing labour market.
Rising geopolitical tensions threaten the fragmentation of the global financial system – which could cost as much as 5% of world GDP every year.
Health was a major focus in 2024, shaping global news and driving key discussions at the World Economic Forum. From climate change health impacts to the rise of
Global supply chains face rising geopolitical fragmentation and economic divergence, driving four plausible outlooks, from multilateral cooperation to full degradation.
In the face of geopolitical challenges, four experts from around the world give their view on what hope there is for improved global collaboration.
Global Gender Gap Index 2025 benchmarks gender parity across 148 economies, offering trend analysis, key findings, and insights into progress since 2006.
The global economic system under which most countries have operated for the last 80 years is being reset, ushering the world into a new era. Existing rules are challenged while
The Global Risks Report 2025 analyses global risks to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities.
Countries need to find ways of achieving global cooperation or risk the damaging effects of fragmentation in challenging economic times. Poverty, desperation and inequality do
The global development sector is in the throes of a profound upheaval – one that makes a return to the old normal increasingly improbable. Multiple, overlapping futures for aid
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