by Katharina Buchholz In a survey of 38 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 21 and 44 percent of…
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by Florian Zandt While not quite a duopoly, Apple and Samsung have long been known to produce the most popular smartphones from a global perspective.…
by Felix Richter, A week after Google unveiled the new Pixel 8a, the company’s latest addition to its smartphone line-up is…
by Anna Fleck, Asia is the world’s largest market for industrial robotics, with nearly three quarters of all newly deployed robots…
by Felix Richter Ever since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022 and other AI tools that have followed in its…
by Felix Richter Over the past decade, domestic robots like robot vacuums and lawn-mowing robots have surged in popularity. These automated…
by Felix Richter, Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Paris on Sunday, kicking off a three-country visit to Europe, his first…
by Katharina Buchholz, Despite motorized rickshaws being a popular symbol associated with India, the country only became the biggest seller of…
by Anna Fleck May is Mental Health Awareness Month in the United States. According to the National Alliance on Mental…
by Katharina Buchholz, People working in Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Jamaica are most likely to have a female boss. This is…
by Anna Fleck, Five more people, including a child, died when trying to cross the English Channel by boat last Tuesday…
by Katharina Buchholz, The global e-commerce market is dominated by China. According to data from eCommerceDB, the country’s total online retail sales amounted up…
by Katharina Buchholz According to the Statista Market Insights, more than 15 percent of food sales in Denmark are of organic…
by Katharina Buchholz, This year’s Earth Day, held on April 22, has the motto “Planet vs. Plastics”. One area where the…
by Katharina Buchholz, One of the major challenges facing India right now is unemployment. This will be a major sticking point for younger…
by Anna Fleck April 15 is World Art Day, a day dedicated to promoting the development and enjoyment of art. The…
by Anna Fleck, Less than half of OECD countries ban anonymous donations for political financing, according to data published in the Anti-Corruption…
by Anna Fleck China is the world’s biggest hydro power producer, having generated an estimated 1,303 terawatt hours of hydropower in…
by Florian Zandt, “Smoking kills” is but one of the slogans connected to anti-tobacco advocacy groups — and it’s quite true.…
by Katharina Buchholz, Chinese EVs continuing to make inroads around the world is reflected in the country’s car export figures which have been…
by Anna Fleck, According to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List, as of April 2, Mukesh Ambani (66) is the richest man in Asia,…
by Felix Richter, Despite the fact that Wall Street’s hopes for a first rate cut in March turned out to be…
by Anna Fleck, As many countries around the world scramble towards a green transition, a new era of electric cars is…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to Statista’s Advertising & Media Market Insights, 41 percent of global media sales were generated digitally last year…
by Katharina Buchholz, In many countries, the drastic step of shutting down the internet is employed in response to actual or…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to SIPRI data, China has increased its military expenditure by almost 900 percent since 1992. At around…
by Anna Fleck, Ramadan starts on Sunday evening, with the first day of fasting on Monday, March 11 this year. The holy…
by Anna Fleck Soy, alongside cattle, palm oil, and wood products are the main commodities driving tropical deforestation globally, concentrated in different countries…
by Anna Fleck An investigation by the environmental and human rights group Global Witness, first reported by the BBC, has revealed that…
by Anna Fleck Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world’s most free and most suppressed nations.…
by Anna Fleck, Four of the top five hospitals in the world are based in the United States, according to a…
by Felix Richter, Even in a globalized world, language barriers have the potential to exclude people from access to information and…
by Katharina Buchholz, Views around medicine differ greatly around the world. As data from Statista’s Consumer Insights shows, around a quarter of urban…
by Katharina Buchholz, Lifestyle and habits can have a big effect on our health – and our life expectancy. A recently released study that followed…
by Florian Zandt, With improvements in medical care and living standards in many countries around the world, the 20th century saw…
by Anna Fleck, Overall, the quality of tap water is pretty good in Europe, with 99 percent of the population in many…
by Anna Fleck, In the run up to the annual Munich Security Conference, a survey was carried out in 11 of the world’s…
by Katharina Buchholz, The projected winner of Indonesia’s presidential elections held yesterday is Prabowo Subianto. He is the current defense minister of…
by Thomas Hinton In 2024, international visitor numbers in the U.S. are predicted to reach 98% of 2019 levels. While this is…
by Katharina Buchholz, According to a ranking recently published by Bloomberg, the Ambanis remain the wealthiest among Asia’s families, having recovered from…
by Florian Zandt, According to this year’s edition of the Corruption Perceptions Index by Transparency International, Nordic countries like Denmark, Sweden and Norway…
by Martin Armstrong, Transparency International has released its 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index which gauges levels of perceived public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories…
by Felix Richter, While Americans have nothing against online video advertising per se, as long as it’s not too…
by Felix Richter, What do Alexander Zverev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Frances Tiafoe and Andrey Rublev have in common? They all have been…
by Florian Zandt, Nowadays, Apple is known for its mobile computing solutions, be it Macbooks, iPhones or Apple Watches. The roots…
by Felix Richter, Little more than a year after Argentina were crowned champions at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar is…
by Anna Fleck, London was the slowest city center to drive through last year, according to TomTom Traffic Index 2023. On average, Londoners…
by Katharina Buchholz, On January 1, a new global minimum corporate tax of 15 percent on multinational corporations went live across some European…
by Felix Richter, Over the next ten years, climate change and its consequences will pose the greatest risk to the world. That’s according…
by Florian Zandt, In the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is now the most-sanctioned country in the world, with 16,077…
by Katharina Buchholz Tennis is one of the few sports in the world with equal prize money between the sexes (at…
by Anna Fleck, The United States was the largest arms exporter between 2018 and 2022, making up 40 percent of all…
by Anna Fleck According to Bloomberg’s financial monitor, the currencies of Lebanon and Argentina experienced significant devaluations against the dollar last year. The…
by Anna Fleck, If the last years have shown us anything, it’s that a lot can change, fast. While many events…
by Katharina Buchholz, The world’s second-biggest container shipping line Maersk said yesterday that it had indefinitely suspended use of Red Sea routes. The…
by Katharina Buchholz, A 7.5-magnitude earthquake with an epicenter located on the country’s Western coast rocked Japan Monday. Dozens of people have…
by Anna Fleck, Canada is the leading country worldwide for essential healthcare coverage, according to The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Health…
by Thomas Hinton, According to a 10-year forecast by the World Travel and Tourism Council, Hong Kong will lead the world in…
by Martin Armstrong, Guyana, located on the north-eastern coast of South America, is emerging as a significant economic force. According to…
by Anna Fleck, The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2022 results were released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and…
by Anna Fleck, The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has recently published its Worldwide Cost of Living Index for 2023. In this edition, Singapore…
by Anna Fleck, Singapore has topped the latest world education ranking informally known as PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, run by…
by Florian Zandt, Even with semiconductors being integral parts of the automotive and computing industries for decades, the race for AI…
by Martin Armstrong Global corporate investment in artificial intelligence has risen greatly over the past decade. A Stanford University analysis estimates that total mergers…
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…