World Outlooks is a forward-looking website for busy executives, planners and analysts:
- It covers five dimensions: society, technology, economy, environment and politics (‘STEEP’).
- It scans a wide range of outlooks with a time horizon of at least two years, looking beyond shorter-term issues.
- It provides summaries and analyses, using human intelligence (‘HI’).
Society
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Future of health 2025
Identification of seven levers of high-performing healthcare systems across five clusters of countries.
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Jobs of Tomorrow: Technology and the Future of the World’s Largest Workforces
How four technologies are reshaping seven major job families employing 80% of the world’s workforce.
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Future of Aid 2040
Outlook to 2040 using key drivers, four scenarios and a crisis typology.
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Strategic Plan 2026-2029
Four strategic objectives and three progress accelerators with the goal of ‘human development on a healthy planet’.
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The Impact of Migration on UK Population Growth
Outlook to 2047 using Office for National Statistics figures with three variants.
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Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034
Outlook to 2034 using the OECD’s/FAO’s Aglink-Cosimo model (AGricultural LINKage – COmmodity SImulation MOdel).
Technology
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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2026
Four medium-term and six short-term trends across three themes.
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10 Emerging Technology Solutions for Planetary Health
Innovations that can help remediate damage to the earth’s natural systems, with comments on policy, finance and equity for each technology.
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Jobs of Tomorrow: Technology and the Future of the World’s Largest Workforces
How four technologies are reshaping seven major job families employing 80% of the world’s workforce.
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War in the Twenty-First Century
Seven interlocking themes about key aspects of modern warfare.
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Energy Outlook 2025
Outlook to 2035 and 2050 using two scenarios: Current trajectory and Below 2°.
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Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025
Ten innovations with the potential to reshape industries and societies, covering scientific progress, strategic impact and ecosystem readiness across five dimensions for each technology.
Economy
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Global Economic Outlook to 2037
Interactive map for country forecasts for 2026, 2027 and 2028-2037.
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Jobs of Tomorrow: Technology and the Future of the World’s Largest Workforces
How four technologies are reshaping seven major job families employing 80% of the world’s workforce.
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Global Energy Perspective 2025
Outlook to 2050 using three energy transition scenarios, with seven key takeaways.
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Global Materials Perspective 2025
Outlook to 2035 for materials (primarily metals) using three energy transition scenarios and three supply scenarios across five sectors (primarily mining).
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Tariff Endgame
Five scenarios primarily about trade protectionism and policy uncertainty, the stance of monetary and fiscal policy and financial market conditions.
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Maritime Forecast to 2050
An analysis of the fuels, technologies, and regulations shaping the future of shipping.
Environment
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Online Climate Scenario Narrative Tool
Tool to generate long-term outlooks using seven scenarios for three types of institution, 13 sectors, nine underwriting classes and 11 countries/ regions.
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Quantitative Climate Scenario Analysis: Case Studies
Nine case studies quantifying financial impacts using various climate scenarios.
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10 Emerging Technology Solutions for Planetary Health
Innovations that can help remediate damage to the earth’s natural systems, with comments on policy, finance and equity for each technology.
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State of Finance for Forests 2025
Outlooks to 2030 and 2050 for forest financing to achieve existing multilateral commitments.
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Unite for Nature on the Path to 2045
Twenty-year vision for the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, publisher of the Red List of Threatened Species.
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Roadmap to Net-Zero Aligned Carbon Market Regulation
Six key pillars for the design or reform of the regulation of carbon markets.
Politics
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Seismic shifts: The reordering of global power
Potential trajectories of the global international order using four scenarios. Link to publication Contents Scenario drivers Scenarios
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Country risk
Medium/long-term risk for export transactions, closely associated with OECD’s country risk classification.
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Roadmap to Net-Zero Aligned Carbon Market Regulation
Six key pillars for the design or reform of the regulation of carbon markets.
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Russia’s War in Ukraine: The Next Chapter
Four scenarios for the trajectory of the war.
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War in the Twenty-First Century
Seven interlocking themes about key aspects of modern warfare.
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How Beijing might rule the South China Sea within a decade
‘Backcasting’ from an imaginary scenario in 1935.
1. Latest outlooks
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Online Climate Scenario Narrative Tool
Tool to generate long-term outlooks using seven scenarios for three types of institution, 13 sectors, nine underwriting classes and 11 countries/ regions.
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Quantitative Climate Scenario Analysis: Case Studies
Nine case studies quantifying financial impacts using various climate scenarios.
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Seismic shifts: The reordering of global power
Potential trajectories of the global international order using four scenarios. Link to publication Contents Scenario drivers Scenarios
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Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2026
Four medium-term and six short-term trends across three themes.
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Africa 2043
Outlook to 2043 for 54 countries using two main scenarios, eight sector scenarios and 19 reporting themes.
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Future of health 2025
Identification of seven levers of high-performing healthcare systems across five clusters of countries.
Latest outlooks for Society, Technology, Economy, Environment and Technology
2. Latest analysis
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Commonly used megatrends
Long term, high impact trends commonly used in outlooks.
3. The future of…
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Batteries
Alternative materials, solid state, energy density, fire risk, cycle life, charging speed, recycling.
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Tyres
Airless, reprints, biomimetics, new compounds, new sensors, 3D sipes.
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Surgery
Augmented/virtual/mixed reality, robotics, AI, minimal invasion, 3D printing, simulations, remote surgery, global training.
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Shoes
Circularity, bio-based materials, powered footware, personalisation, 3D printing, spray-on uppers, smart/super shoes, virtual fitting.
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Office design
Activity-based and collaboration spaces, tech-enabled meeting rooms, booking systems, hot desking, cost savings, dysphoria, wellbeing.
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Mangroves
IUCN Red List, drone seeding, “halt loss, restore half, double protection”.