by Katharina Buchholz, Jul 5, 2023 Numbers from the World Bank show how access to landline internet as well as to mobile…
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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…
by Anna Fleck, Mar 9, 2023 Democratic watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world’s most free and most…
by Anna Fleck, Mar 9, 2023 Democracy watchdog organization Freedom House has released its annual ranking of the world’s most free and…
by Katharina Buchholz, Mar 9, 2023 There are only 14 countries in the world which offer full legal protections to women, according…
by Martin Armstrong, Feb 27, 2023 By a massive margin, the largest share of revenue in the global market for smartphone…
by Katharina Buchholz, Feb 24, 2023 Out of the world’s 50 most violent cities, 38 are in Latin America including 17…
by Martin Armstrong, Feb 24, 2023 Looking at pledges of military aid to Ukraine between Jan. 24, 2022 and Jan. 15, 2023, the…
by Florian Zandt, Feb 22, 2023 In the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is now the most-sanctioned country in the…
by Felix Richter, Feb 20, 2023 As the UN commemorates World Day of Social Justice on February 20, we’re taking a look at…
by Katharina Buchholz, Feb 17, 2023 Statista’s Advertising & Media Markets Insights estimates that worldwide metaverse revenue will stand at $490 billion in 2030.…
by Felix Richter, Jan 24, 2023 Microsoft and Alphabet became the latest companies to announce major job cuts last week amid…
by Anna Fleck, Jan 24, 2023 The United States is often thought of as the country where it’s most normal to…
by Anna Fleck, Jan 19, 2023 By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54…
by Katharina Buchholz, Jan 19, 2023 Updates to United Nation Population Division data has moved the date at which India would overtake China as…
by Martin Armstrong, Jan 18, 2023 With the passing of France’s Lucile Randon at the age of 118 yesterday, the title…
by Martin Armstrong, Jan 13, 2023 Rare earth elements (REE) are metals used in many of today’s key technologies, such as wind…
by Felix Richter, Jan 9, 2023 When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the U.S. economy with full force in March 2020, stifling…
by Anna Fleck, Jan 9, 2023 Israel has the cheapest mobile internet in the world, with one gigabyte of data costing…
by Katharina Buchholz, Jan 9, 2023 Britain ended conscription back in 1957 and many European countries have since followed suit. Yet,…
by Florian Zandt, Jan 6, 2023 On January 4, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) fined Meta a combined 390 million euros or $413…
by Felix Richter, Jan 3, 2023 With all the negative headlines surrounding Tesla and its increasingly controversial CEO Elon Musk in recent weeks,…
by Felix Richter, Jan 3, 2023 If you’ve had the pleasure of visiting Norway in recent years, you may have been…
by Katharina Buchholz, Dec 21, 2022 A million seconds are close to 12 days, a billion seconds amount to almost 32…
by Felix Richter, Dec 23, 2022 Having established itself as an early leader in the market for cloud infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS),…
by Martin Armstrong, Dec, 2022 532 journalists were in prison due to their work as of mid-December 2022. China is the…
by Anna Fleck, Dec, 2022 The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has recently published its Worldwide Cost of Living Index for 2022. In this…
by Martin Armstrong, Dec, 2022 Wages are rising, but they are not keeping up with inflation. While pay negotiations may have…
by Felix Richter, Dec 8, 2022 The overnight success of Lensa AI, a photo editing app powered by artifical intelligence, shouldn’t…
by Anna Fleck, Dec 6, 2022 The United States is by far the world’s biggest producer of oil, having produced around 16.6 million…
by Martin Armstrong, Dec 5, 2022 For the first time in over 30 years, and in a tightly-controlled presentation, the United…
by Anna Fleck, Nov 30, 2022 The United States has the highest number of skier visits of any single country per season, followed…
by Martin Armstrong, Nov 28, 2022 Online Black Friday spending in the U.S. rose to a new record in 2022, hitting $9.1 billion,…
by Anna Fleck, Nov 28, 2022 Governments from around the world have agreed to draw up a global agreement by the…
by Katharina Buchholz, Nov 23, 2022 Which countries go easy on the climate and have also acted to combat climate change?…
by Anna Fleck, Nov 23, 2022 The FIFA World Cup 2022 kicked off in Qatar this week. Over the course of the month,…
by Katharina Buchholz, Nov 23, 2022 The United States’ 92 nuclear reactors currently in operation have a mean age of 41.6…
by Martin Armstrong, Nov 14, 2022 As this infographic using data from the United Nations Energy Statistics Pocketbook 2022 shows, the one…
by Martin Armstrong, Nov 14, 2022 The hype around cryptocurrencies is spreading around the world, with blockchain currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum or…
by Martin Armstrong, Nov 11, 2022 No company in the world has more employees than Walmart. The latest information from the…
by Anna Fleck, Nov 11, 2022 The United States is home to an estimated 43 percent of the world’s golf courses, according…
by Katharina Buchholz, Nov 11, 2022 According to an analysis of the Land Matrix database, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is…
by Katharina Buchholz, Nov 10, 2022 Looking at pledges of military aid to Ukraine between Jan 24 and October 3,…
by Katharina Buchholz, Oct 20, 2022 Canadian city Toronto was found to have the highest risk of a housing bubble developing…
by Martin Armstrong, Oct 21, 2022 Healthcare can be a very lucrative business, and while as citizens we may view hospitals…
by Florian Zandt, Oct 21, 2022 Big U.S. museums exited the top 10 of the world’s most-visited in 2020 as East…
by Katharina Buchholz, Oct 21, 2022 According to information obtained by the Washington Post, Elon Musk has presented plans to cut nearly…
by Anna Fleck, Oct 18, 2022 The United States has pledged more than 52 billion euros in military, financial and humanitarian…
by Katharina Buchholz, Oct 18, 2022 According to the 2022 World Nuclear Industry Status Report, global nuclear power generation rose by 3.9 percent…
by Felix Richter, Oct 10, 2022 When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the U.S. economy with full force in March 2020,…
by Anna Fleck, Oct 10, 2022 At least 579 people are known to have been put to death last year,…
by Martin Armstrong, Oct 7, 2022 Back in January, in what was a rare showing of consensus on a global…