The European Union (EU) exports over $6 trillion in products annually.In this map, we display European Union countries’ top exports as of 2022. Data for the map was sourced from The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Read more in Visual Capitalist…
Domestic politics has emerged as a risk for the global economy. More than eight in 10 respondents (83%) said domestic politics will be a source of volatility in 2024 – a year when more than half the world’s population is…
Geopolitically, we are in a kind of a recession. We are between world orders. We had one world order, and we don’t know really what the next one is, but we know that the decisions we’re making now will have…
International trade has become increasingly fragmented over the last five years as countries have shifted to trading more with their geopolitical allies.This graphic from The Hinrich Foundation, the first in a three-part series covering the future of trade. Read more…
Middle powers – countries such as India, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are playing an outsized role in moving the global agenda forward. Today, at a time of geopolitical turbulence, middle-power leadership – particularly from the Middle East…
The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) has released its real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecasts for 2024, and while global growth is projected to stay steady at 3.2%, various major nations are seeing declining forecasts. Read more in visual capitalist…
Ranked first, China is expected to have slightly more than 1 billion consumers by 2030, a 15% increase from 2024. Just across the Himalayas, at second place, India will have 773 million consumers, up from 529 million today, a staggering…
Heading into 2024, an average of 50% of polled adults felt confident that the global economy would be stronger than in 2023. But breaking down responses by country shows a vast disparity between responses. Read more in Visual Capitalist Confidence in the…
We seem to be driving strong changes on timescales that are less than a single generation. Is this too fast for the distributed cognition that occurs over our social and political networks to handle? Read more in Big Think Have…
This graphic shows global GDP growth projections in 2024, based on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) October 2023 Outlook and January 2024 update. Read more in Visual Capitalist GDP Growth Forecasts by Country in 2024 By Dorothy Neufeld was last…
