by Martin Armstrong Global corporate investment in artificial intelligence has risen greatly over the past decade. A Stanford University analysis estimates that total mergers…
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by Anna Fleck, Venezuela is the country with the highest inflation in the world, with an increase in consumer prices estimated at 360…
by Katharina Buchholz, Javier Milei was elected president of Argentina this Sunday after the far-right, ultra-libertarian candidate beat left-wing opponent Sergio Massa in…
by Anna Fleck, According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), an estimated 1.35 million people die in road accidents around the world each year. The…
by Katharina Buchholz, More than half a billion people in China will be paying with phones applications at a point-of-sale this…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to the CB Insights unicorn list, Chinese AI and media company ByteDance is the highest-valued startup – currently private, up-and-coming…
by Thomas Hinton, In a 2023 survey published by Amadeus travelers were asked what they would trust AI to do for them in…
by Martin Armstrong, In the latest Postal Development Report, the Universal Postal Union looks at the postal services of 172 countries…
by Katharina Buchholz, DSL and cable internet connections still make up 56.1 percent of fixed broadband subscriptions across OECD countries but high-speed…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to a report recently released by the International Renewable Energy Agency, around 13.7 million people globally work in…
by Florian Zandt, As IT technology has developed rapidly and grown towards mainstream implementation of 5G networks, the Internet of…
by Anna Fleck, Denmark is the best country in the world for remote workers, according to The Global Remote Work Index…
by Martin Armstrong, According to the cable.co.uk broadband speed league 2023, Taiwan is on top of the world when it comes…
by Martin Armstrong, Interestingly, when it comes to statistics regarding which countries have the most islands, figures can differ hugely…
by Katharina Buchholz, While nations in Asia have in the past seen reports about their workaholic ways and failure to…
by Anna Fleck, World Mental Health Day falls on October 10 and this year its theme is Mental Health is a…
by Thomas Hinton, By 2032, Lagos, Nigeria is the city predicted to have the largest share of business travel spending…
by Martin Armstrong, As detailed in a new report from UNICEF, from 2016 to 2021 an estimated 43.1 million children were displaced…
by Martin Armstrong, FIFA announced Wednesday it had agreed that the sole candidacy to host the 2030 World Cup would be the…
by Katharina Buchholz, The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has released its 2023 Global Innovation Index. It evaluated innovation levels across…
by Katharina Buchholz, Despite the push-back against fast fashion, clothing and shoes are the product category that most people around the world…
by Martin Armstrong, In the mid-term, nuclear power plants are considered by some experts to be the most efficient transitional solution for achieving…
by Felix Richter, Charging infrastructure plays a pivotal role in facilitating the global shift towards electric mobility. Public charging stations form the…
by Martin Armstrong, As this chart shows, thanks chiefly to the €77.1 billion in pledged financial aid, European Union institutions are…
by Felix Richter, When Apple unveiled its latest line of smartphones last week, the company simultaneously pulled the plug on some of its…
by Anna Fleck, Paris has been named the world’s top city for public transit, according to William Russell’s Global Transport Index 2023. The…
by Anna Fleck, The tourism industry is slowly recovering from the pandemic after having experienced its deepest shock in history, according to a newly published…
by Anna Fleck, The average person on the planet could live 2.3 years longer if global particulate pollution levels were…
by Katharina Buchholz, Grocery delivery has long been considered the “last frontier of e-commerce” but with the aid of the…
by Anna Fleck, The United States has been the main destination for international migrants worldwide since 1970, according to the World Migration Report…
by Anna Fleck, India received $83.15 billion in international remittances in 2020, according to the World Migration Report 2022. This is the…
by Katharina Buchholz, The feat of rating the world’s countries from best to worst seems megalomaniac, but the U.S. News and World…
by Anna Fleck, Despite seeing an 11 percent fall in its number of ultra wealthy people in 2022, Asia still…
by Anna Fleck, Aug 29, 2023 More than two million men and women have served on more than 70 UN peacekeeping missions since…
by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 28, 2023 According to a report by marketing firm IZEA, video posts earn a premium for content creators and influencers, may they…
by Anna Fleck, Aug 25, 2023 The following chart shows the recorded number of third country nationals who were deported following…
by Anna Fleck, Aug 25, 2023 In its latest annual report, Swiss bank UBS reveals there has been a slight downtick in…
by Anna Fleck, Aug 24, 2023 An estimated 50 million people were living in modern slavery as of 2021, according to the…
by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 23, 2023 Only nine nations (or political unions) have been to the moon, its orbit or its…
by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 16, 2023 According to the Forbes Global 2000, Saudi state oil enterprise Saudi Aramco is once again the…
by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 16, 2023 After oil prices skyrocketed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, eight oil and gas companies brought…
by Felix Richter, Aug 14, 2023 In recent decades, the world has witnessed a remarkable transformation in the perception of sneakers, which…
by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 10, 2023 Worldwide, a large part of e-commerce growth is driven by consumers using their mobile devices, phones and…
by Florian Zandt, Aug 10, 2023 The 13 biggest shipping markets in the world were responsible for 161 billion posted packages in…
by Katharina Buchholz, Aug 10, 2023 Walmart is the top-selling company in the world, turning over around $611 billion in annual revenue. This is according…
by Martin Armstrong, Jul 10, 2023 As this chart shows, the United States has so far pledged the most financial…
by Anna Fleck, Jul 10, 2023 Environmental protest group Just Stop Oil hit the headlines again last Wednesday after disrupting…
by Felix Richter, Jul 10, 2023 According to United Nations’ latest projections of global population, India surpassed China as the world’s most populous…
by Felix Richter, Jul 7, 2023 World Chocolate Day, celebrated on July 7th every year, pays homage to one of…
by Anna Fleck, Jul 5, 2023 It’s been 75 years since the start of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, the…
by Katharina Buchholz, Jul 5, 2023 Numbers from the World Bank show how access to landline internet as well as to mobile…
by Katharina Buchholz, Jun 21, 2023 The latest release of the World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report shows that the devastating effects of…
by Katharina Buchholz, Jun 20, 2023 In the post-COVID period, global remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries have been growing more slowly.…
by Felix Richter, Jun 20, 2023 This year’s World Competitiveness Ranking, published by the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) evaluates 64 economies…
by Anna Fleck, Jun 19, 2023 According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, as of June 19, Mukesh Ambani is the richest man…
by Katharina Buchholz, Jun 15, 2023 Newly published data by Henley & Partners shows that while China and India are losing the most millionaires…
by Anna Fleck, Jun 14, 2023 World Blood Donor Day is organized every June 14 by the World Health Organization with…
by Anna Fleck, Jun 6, 2023 In order to help LGBTQ+ tourists travel safely, the German portal Spartacus started publishing the Gay…
by Florian Zandt, Jun 2, 2023 The United States and Taiwan signed a trade agreement on Thursday to strengthen their economic ties, amid…
By Katharina Buchholz, Jun 2, 2023 The Forbes Billionaires List reveals who the world’s richest people are but also how the…
by Anna Fleck, Jun 1, 2023 With the travel industry having bounced back in full force after the peak Covid-19 pandemic years,…
by Katharina Buchholz, May 31, 2023 Representatives of UN members are meeting in Paris this week to discuss a possible global binding…
by Felix Richter, May 30, 2023 “Grow food, not tobacco” is the theme of World No Tobacco Day 2023, encouraging governments around…
by Martin Armstrong, May 24, 2023 During the G7 summit held from 19 to 21 May in Japan, US President Joe…
by Anna Fleck, May 23, 2023 Trust in news has fallen in many countries around the world, following a temporary increase…
by Florian Zandt, May 23, 2023 On May 22, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) fined Meta 1.2 billion euros or around $1.3 billion…
by Anna Fleck, May 24, 2023 Counterfeit medicines are on the rise, according to data from the Pharmaceutical Security Institute. As the following…
by Katharina Buchholz, May 22, 2023 Semiconductor fabrication lays the foundation for microchip production and therefore helps to make our world go…
by Florian Zandt, May 19, 2023 China is not only the country in the world producing the most honey, but it also…
by Felix Richter, May 5, 2023 While traditionally viewed as a hardware company, Apple has made major strides to expand…
by Katharina Buchholz, May 4, 2023 The race for space has started anew as a flurry of private and government…
by Felix Richter, May 5, 2023 When Apple launched the iTunes Music Store (later iTunes Store) on April 28, 2003, it was…
by Anna Fleck, May 2, 2023 After leaving Manchester United for a two-and-a-half year contract with Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr…
by Anna Fleck, May 2, 2023 The United Kingdom was the second biggest producer of oil and gas in Europe…
by Anna Fleck, May 3, 2023 The 2023 World Press Freedom Index, compiled by Reporters Without Borders, was released today. This…
by Felix Richter, Apr 18, 2023 Slovakia has joined Poland and Hungary in halting imports of grains and other agricultural products…
by Katharina Buchholz, Apr 17, 2023 According to a survey of 170,000 people across 49 countries and territories, the number of…
by Katharina Buchholz, Apr 14, 2023 Statista’s survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults for its Brand Profiler special Personalities and…
by Felix Richter, Apr 14, 2023 Contrary to what their name might suggest, basketball, tennis and running shoes are in no…
by Anna Fleck, Apr 12, 2023 Wind and solar power accounted for 12 percent of global electricity in 2022, according…
by Katharina Buchholz, Apr 12, 2023 Big cities like Hong Kong or Los Angeles are well-known for their expensive real estate…
by Anna Fleck, Apr 5, 2023 Bernard Arnault (74) has been named the world’s richest man of 2023 with an estimated…
by Martin Armstrong, Apr 5, 2023 As this chart shows, the United States has so far pledged the most financial support…
by Katharina Buchholz, Apr 5, 2023 India is the country with the most domestically trained doctors working abroad in the OECD…
by Thomas Hinton, Apr 4, 2023 The impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on travel has been catastrophic. From 2019 to…
by Felix Richter, Apr 4, 2023 Published annually by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the Global Innovation Index (GII) ranks countries based on…
by Katharina Buchholz, Apr 4, 2023 Megaprojects have been growing larger globally and many of them have recently centered on the Arab…
by Martin Armstrong, Mar 14, 2023 The latest report from the Institute for Economics and Peace estimates that in 2022, 6,701…
by Katharina Buchholz, Mar 13, 2023 Every spring, the clocks in several countries around the world change by one hour and don’t change…
by Katharina Buchholz, Mar 10, 2023 In a stunning reversal of earlier years, China in 2022 announced, pre-permitted or permitted the…