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Global Risks Report, 2025

World Economic Forum · all publications · published 2025-01 · 27 predictions

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20th edition. Survey: Global Risks Perception Survey 2024-2025, over 900 respondents, 33 risks. Same severity method as 2023-2024: 1-7 scale over 2 and 10 years, ranked by mean (Figure C, top 10 each). Risk list and labels changed again (for example 'Cyber espionage and warfare', 'Inequality', 'State-based armed conflict'). METHOD CHANGE in the current-year question: respondents select ONE risk (2024: up to five), so shares are not comparable with 2024. Current-year entries are the top 7 of 33 bars in Figure B; values are whole percentages as printed. Category read from the figure colour key.

www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2025.pdf

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State-based armed conflict
rank 1 · geopoliticalwef-global-risks-2025-001
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Extreme weather events
rank 2 · environmentalwef-global-risks-2025-002
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Geoeconomic confrontation
rank 3 · geopoliticalwef-global-risks-2025-003
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Misinformation and disinformation
rank 4 · technologicalwef-global-risks-2025-004
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Societal polarization
rank 5 · societalwef-global-risks-2025-005