by Anna Fleck, By far the largest employer of children in child labor is agriculture. This is according to a report published jointly by…
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by Florian Zandt, Generative AI, especially the products released or announced by tech corporations like Microsoft, Alphabet or Meta and the…
by Anna Fleck, Indonesia has entered accession talks with the OECD, as it hopes to become one of the organization’s next…
by Anna Fleck, In just two decades, the global annual production of plastic waste has doubled from 180 million tonnes to…
by Anna Fleck, Worldwide, some 30 million square kilometers of coastal waters were listed as marine protected areas in 2023, representing…
by Anna Fleck, China was the world’s biggest extractor of domestic materials in 2023, according to the UNEP’s Global Material Flows Database.…
by Anna Fleck, This year’s edition of ‘The World’s 50 Best Restaurants’ by publishing group William Reed Business Media was…
by Anna Fleck, Tea is the second most widely consumed drink around the world, coming in only after water. The FAO estimates…
by Felix Richter The world’s 10 highest-paid athletes earned a record-breaking $1.38 billion between May 2023 and May 2024, as the…
by Anna Fleck Raw tobacco production is a huge industry. In 2022 alone, around 5.8 million tons of tobacco were produced worldwide,…
by Katharina Buchholz, After global food prices had climbed to unprecedented highs in 2022, as lurking effects of the Covid-19 pandemic…
by Martin Armstrong, At least 735 million people were affected by hunger in 2022, according to the most recent report from the Food…
by Anna Fleck The Turkish capital of Istanbul was the world’s most visited city in 2023, according to data by Euromonitor International. With…
by Anna Fleck, China is yet to fully recover from its pandemic-induced travel slump, with projections forecasting outbound tourism to be back on…
by Katharina Buchholz In a survey of 38 countries carried out by Statista Consumer Insights, only between 21 and 44 percent of…
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…