Key findings of the twentieth edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2025.
By David Soyka, Senior Editor at Industry Today
As the 2025 World Economic Forum comes to a close on Friday, January 24, the international organization for public-private cooperation released Global Risks Report 2025: Conflict, Environment and Disinformation Top Threats.
This is the twentieth edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report. Key findings include focus on escalating geopolitical, environmental, societal and technological challenges that pose potentially grave economic, social, and political tensions. This edition presents the findings of the Global Risks Perception Survey 2024-2025 (GRPS), capturing insights from over 900 experts worldwide. The report analyses global risks through three timeframes to support decision-makers in balancing current crises and longer-term priorities.
State-based armed conflict is a primary concern followed by threats to social cohesion with the continuing spread of misinformation and disinformation. Another leading global risk is environmental, led by extreme weather events, loss of biodiversity and ecosystem collapse.
According to the report, “Optimism is limited as the danger of miscalculation or misjudgment by political and military actors is high. We seem to be living in one of the most divided times since the Cold War, and this is reflected in the results of the GRPS, which reveal a bleak outlook across all three time horizons – current, short-term and long-term.”
More than half of the respondents (52%) anticipate an unsettled global outlook over the next two years, with a combined four percentage point increase in reporting an overall pessimistic outlook compared to last year’s report. Continued skepticism over the next 10 years continues with 62% of respondents expecting stormy or turbulent times.
“The decade ahead will be pivotal as leaders will be confronted with increasingly complex global risks,” the report notes. “But to prevent a downward spiral in which citizens worldwide will be worse off than before, ultimately there is no option other than to find avenues for dialogue and collaboration.”
Read the complete report here.
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