Uncertainty may be the watchword for the global economy today but the past 40 years have been a period of increasing wealth and living standards around the world. Data from the World Bank shows that the number of low-income countries has halved since 1987, while the number of countries classified as high-income has more than doubled. More than half of the respondents surveyed for the World Economic Forum's latest Chief Economists' Outlook expect greater divergence between the growth of developin

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What’s the outlook for the global economy? 53% of chief economists believe the global #economy will weaken in the year ahead, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum, but that’s an improvement on the 72% who thought the same in September 2025. From game-changing AI developments to the threat of inflated asset prices and a remarkably resilient trade sector, Philipp Grosskurth, Insight Lead at the World Economic Forum, talks us through the survey’s findings. Can you guess which global re