Global Risks Report 2025

Global risks over long (10-year) and short (2-year) time horizons, using a 1-7 scale for severity and five reporting categories.

Link to report

Contents

Top 10 long-term risks

  1. Extreme weather events.
  2. Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse.
  3. Critical change to Earth systems.
  4. Natural resource shortages.
  5. Misinformation and disinformation.
  6. Adverse outcomes of AI technologies.
  7. Inequality.
  8. Societal polarisation.
  9. Cyber espionage and warfare.
  10. Pollution.

Likert scale for severity

1-7 where 1 is low severity and 7 is high severity.

Reporting categories

  • Economic.
  • Environmental.
  • Geopolitical.
  • Societal.
  • Technological.