by Anna Fleck, The average person on the planet could live 2.3 years longer if global particulate pollution levels were…
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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 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 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 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…