by Anna Fleck, The OECD has raised its global growth forecast for 2025, now predicting GDP to expand by 3.2 percent,…
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by Anna Fleck, According to estimates by Statista Market Insights, the global travel and tourism industry surpassed pre-coronavirus levels in 2023 and…
by Felix Richter, Over the past two decades, domestic robots like robot vacuums and lawn-mowing robots have evolved from gimmicks for…
by Katharina Buchholz, The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its 2025 Global Innovation Index. It evaluated innovation levels across 132…
by Anna Fleck, Data from UNESCO shows the number of Chinese students studying in the United States has dropped in recent years, with…
by Katharina Buchholz, Numbers calculated by financial advisory Lazard as of June 2025 estimate price ranges for the generation of one MWh of…
by Anna Fleck, Teachers’ salaries vary significantly around the world. New data published in the OECD Education at a Glance report shows that…
by Felix Richter, Over the past two decades, online shopping has evolved from novelty to norm, with many Americans routinely ordering…
by Felix Richter, While inflation has long come down from its 2021/2022 highs, when it peaked at 9 percent, it is…
by Anna Fleck, Natural disasters have led to $6.9 trillion in economic losses since 1980, according to estimates by the insurance…
by Katharina Buchholz, A recent Statista Consumer Insights survey shows that worry about crime is on the minds of many residents…
by Katharina Buchholz, Within the last two weeks, analytics firm LSEG downgraded mean forward 12-month company earnings for several Asian countries in light…
by Anna Fleck, While Southeast Asia remains home to the largest areas of mangrove forests in the world at 49,500km2, or…
by Anna Fleck, The United States the world’s biggest video games market in terms of revenue, expected to surpass $140 billion…
by Anna Fleck, Almost half of the European Union’s imports of rare earths came from China last year, according to the…
by Felix Richter, As the Northern Hemisphere’s summer holiday season is in full swing, millions of tourists are heading towards Southern Europe to…
by Anna Fleck, China saw a 10.7 percent drop in exports to the United States in the first half of 2025…
by Felix Richter, According to United Nations’ latest projections of global population, India surpassed China as the world’s most populous country in April 2023.…
by Anna Fleck, According to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025, over half of under-35-year-olds in the United States now say…
by Felix Richter With the technological advancements of the past two decades, a lot of new challenges have emerged for parents…
by Thomas Hinton, When asked about their ability to attract talent to their industry, at least half of employers in the…
by Katharina Buchholz Newly published data by Henley & Partners shows that while China and India were still losing the most millionaires (or billionaires)…
by Katharina Buchholz The number of millionaires rose fastest over the past 10 years in Montenegro, the United Arab Emirates and Malta, according to…
by Felix Richter As China’s economy continues to grow, so does its demand for energy. With rapid industrialization, urbanization and rising…
by Felix Richter After an initial surge in oil prices following the U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites on the weekend,…
by Katharina Buchholz, A report released today by the World Meteorological Organization shows that temperature warming in Asia has increased fast over the past…
by Katharina Buchholz According to a report recently released by the International Renewable Energy Agency, more than 16 million people globally work in…
by Felix Richter To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first international football tournament with representation of all regions, which took…
by Katharina Buchholz The Covid-19 pandemic saw international enrollment at U.S. higher education institutions dip majorly, but the number of international students has…
by Anna Fleck U.S. President Donald Trump’s four-day trip to the Middle East last week included visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar…
by Felix Richter, As buying a home is becoming more and more unattainable, a car is very high up on the list of…
by Anna Fleck, India has suspended the Indus Waters Treaty with Pakistan, a major water-sharing agreement brokered by the World Bank.…
by Katharina Buchholz Global electric car sales almost tripled over the past three years. They had previously doubled between 2020 and 2021, driven…
by Anna Fleck, India and Pakistan, currently experiencing a ceasefire after clashes along their disputed border, have caught global attention…
by Katharina Buchholz Asians work from home the least in a global comparison, while college-educated workers from English-speaking countries and Africa do so…
by Felix Richter, VE Day, or Victory in Europe Day, is celebrated on May 8 each year to mark the formal…
by Katharina Buchholz, Cloud computing has changed the status of network hardware like servers and data storage from a common…
by Anna Fleck, Even before the economic uncertainty ushered in this past week by U.S. President Donald Trump’s widespread tariffs, many people…
by Felix Richter Inflation in the U.S. moderated more than expected in March, as both headline inflation and the core index…
by Katharina Buchholz In 2020, there were five U.S. entries among the cities with the biggest consumer spending in the world. By 2040,…
by Anna Fleck Global electricity demand from data centers is expected to more than double in the next five years, largely…
by Felix Richter As part of the retaliation against Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, China has imposed new export…
by Felix Richter Nvidia’s share price dropped nearly 17 percent on Monday, as the release of DeepSeek-R1 – a Chinese AI…
by Katharina Buchholz, Chinese company DeepSeek disrupted the AI market with the launch of its R1 model last week. As a result, the Nasdaq…
by Katharina Buchholz, The UK’s Oxford University was names the world’s best university in the latest global ranking released by Times Higher Education on Wednesday.…
by Anna Fleck, Canada, the United States and Finland announced a new trilateral partnership called the “ICE Pact” (or Icebreaker Collaboration…
by Katharina Buchholz, The latest global university ranking has been released by Times Higher Education, putting the UK’s Oxford University at the top of…
by Felix Richter, Four and a half years after Donald Trump’s first attempt of withdrawing the United States from the World…
by Felix Richter, Over the next 10 years, climate change and its consequences will pose the greatest risk to the world. That’s according…
by Anna Fleck Distrust of the news is particularly widespread in the United States and France. According to a survey by Statista Consumer Insights, one…
by Anna Fleck, Singapore has the most powerful passport in the world, with its citizens able to visit 195 countries and…
by Anna Fleck According to the Global Energy Monitor, the world’s total nuclear power capacity is currently at 396 gigawatts (GW), with a further…
by Anna Fleck, In a survey of 21 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 19 and 46 percent of…
by Felix Richter 2024 was another great year for the so-called “Magnificent Seven”, a group of mega-cap tech companies that dominate…
by Anna Fleck, Eight in ten people agree that the average global temperature will increase in 2025, according to an Ipsos survey of…
by Anna Fleck, If the last years have shown us anything, it’s that a lot can change, fast. While many events…
by Anna Fleck 2024 will be another year not forgotten any time soon. A look at the biggest trending Google searches can serve…
by Anna Fleck The lightning offensive by various Syrian rebel groups that led to the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime on…
by Anna Fleck Canada is the leading country worldwide for essential healthcare coverage, according to The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health…
by Felix Richter International Anti-Corruption Day is observed annually on December 9 to raise awareness about the harmful effects of corruption…
by Florian Zandt At 4.3 million metric tonnes of loaded and unloaded international air freight, Hong Kong International Airport remains the…
by Anna Fleck According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 1.19 million people die in road accidents around the world each year. The…
by Florian Zandt The airports with the highest number of embarking and disembarking passengers in 2023 have largely regained their pre-pandemic…
by Anna Fleck The state of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing has worsened globally since 2021, according to the 2023 IUU Fishing…
by Anna Fleck, How many years can we expect to enjoy our retirement in good health? According to calculations by Statista,…
by Felix Richter While “Made in China” has become a staple of our everyday lives, with everything from our phones to…
by Anna Fleck, Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, chairperson of the Adani Group, is currently embroiled in a fraud scandal. Last week,…
by Katharina Buchholz The U.S. international adoption landscape has changed fundamentally in the past years as fewer and fewer children arrive…
by Felix Richter, The release of ChatGPT in the fall of 2022 and the many AI-powered tools that followed in its tracks have…
by Anna Fleck, According to OECD data, South Korea has the most work to do in order to close the gender wage…
by Florian Zandt Toyota generated $298.3 billion in revenues between April 2023 and March 2024, more than double the amount of Honda,…
by Thomas Hinton, Travel and tourism was already a fast-growing sector before the pandemic temporarily, albeit drastically, stunted its seemingly unstoppable progress. For…
by Felix Richter Despite inflation cooling to the lowest level in more than three years in recent months, there’s no way…
by Anna Fleck 47 media professionals have been killed in 2024 so far due to their journalistic activities, according to the…
by Felix Richter, When leaders of the newly expanded BRICS group meet in Kazan, Russia, this week, one of the talking…
by Anna Fleck, Global growth is expected to remain “stable yet underwhelming” in 2024 and 2025, at a steady 3.2 percent,…
by Katharina Buchholz, In the year 2030, Millennials or even Gen Z members are expected to be contributing the largest share…
by Katharina Buchholz, A world map showing the most common origins of immigrants by country reveals some prolific immigrant nations as well as…
by Felix Richter Child poverty continues to be most prevalent in Sub-Saharan Africa, as the region accounted for more than 70…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to the United Nations, global food systems as well as food packaging and distribution are responsible for…
by Anna Fleck Four in ten people in India follow either a vegetarian or a vegan diet, according to data by…
by Anna Fleck, Digital audio streaming has taken off in a big way in the past ten years. According to Statista’s Digital…
by Katharina Buchholz, World leaders frequently rub shoulders with the rich and famous, but does that mean they themselves can be…
by Anna Fleck, Around 13 percent of global food is estimated to be lost each year from the farm up to…
by Florian Zandt Despite recent jumps in valuation for generative artificial intelligence company OpenAI and Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX, ByteDance…
by Florian Zandt, Between 2014 and September 25, 2024, more than 30,000 people either died or went missing in the Western,…
by Katharina Buchholz, Established financial centers have lost some of their shine in the past decade according to the Global Financial Centres Index by…
by Katharina Buchholz Indian unveiled its second nuclear-powered submarine last week in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The domestically produced vessel is armed with ballistic…
by Katharina Buchholz, Megaprojects have been growing larger globally and many of them have recently centered on the Arab Gulf Region. Construction…
by Anna Fleck, Saudi Arabia is planning to build a two-kilometer-high skyscraper on a site north of the capital city of…