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5 days ago · Discover the trends from another future year using the timeline buttons below. Read 251 predictions for 2040, a year that will see the world transform in big and small ways; this includes disruptions throughout our culture, technology, science, health and business sectors. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.
2 days ago · Likelihood: 100 Percent 1. Germany outlaws combustion fuel cars, permitting only sales of electric cars going forward. 1. India becomes the most populous country on Earth. 1. New Mini Ice Age to begin between 2030 to 2036. 1. Aquaculture provides the nearly two thirds of the world's seafood 1. Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed ...
Apr 10, 2024 · Governments, business leaders and development banks have two years to take action to avert far worse climate change, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Wednesday, in a speech that warned global ...
5 days ago · In 2030, a number of technology breakthroughs and trends will become available to the public, for example: The first fully electric commercial airliners go into service for shorter domestic flights inside the US and within Europe between 2029 to 2032. (Likelihood 90%) 1. Flying cars hit the road, and the air 1.
3 days ago · Global growth is projected at –4.9 percent in 2020, 1.9 percentage points below the April 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a more negative impact on activity in the first half of 2020 than anticipated, and the recovery is projected to be more gradual than previously forecast. In 2021 global growth is projected at 5.4 percent. Overall, this would leave ...
Apr 12, 2024 · Chapter 1: Global Prospects and Policies Global Prospects and Policies. The months after the release of the June 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update have offered a glimpse of how difficult rekindling economic activity will be while the pandemic surges. During May and June, as many economies tentatively reopened from the Great Lockdown, the ...
2 days ago · The COVID-19 pandemic is inflicting high and rising human costs worldwide, and the necessary protection measures are severely impacting economic activity. As a result of the pandemic, the global economy is projected to contract sharply by –3 percent in 2020, much worse than during the 2008–09 financial crisis. In a baseline scenario--which assumes that the pandemic fades in the second half ...
