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Global Risks Report, 2021

World Economic Forum · all publications · published 2021-01 · 44 predictions

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16th edition. Survey: Global Risks Perception Survey 2020 (autumn 2020). Likelihood and impact: simple average of 1-5 scores for 35 risks over 10 years (same scale as 2012-2020). Figure IV 'Evolving Risks Landscape' prints top 7 for 2021 (top 5 for 2012-2020; those match the 2020 figure). New in 2021: 'Global Risks Horizon' (Figure I), a tally of when respondents expect each risk to become a critical threat: 0-2, 3-5, 5-10 years. Risk list changed: cyberattacks and data fraud merged into 'failure of cybersecurity measures', inflation and deflation into 'failure to stabilize price trajectories', food and water crises into 'natural resource crises'. Labels are the figures' short labels. Ties in the horizon figure (for example 38.3 and 35.6) are ranked in printed order. Category read from the figure colour key.

www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_The_Global_Risks_Report_2021.pdf

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Extreme weather
rank 1 · environmentalwef-global-risks-2021-001
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Climate action failure
rank 2 · environmentalwef-global-risks-2021-002
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Human environmental damage
rank 3 · environmentalwef-global-risks-2021-003
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Infectious diseases
rank 4 · societalwef-global-risks-2021-004
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Biodiversity loss
rank 5 · environmentalwef-global-risks-2021-005