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Sep 5, 2017 · 33 ideas that will change the world. Today we face many problems, from epidemics to climate change. Grand challenges call for grand ideas – new tech, clever science, and smart solutions ...
- The world now has the largest generation of young people ever. Adolescents and youth, those between 10 and 24 years old, accounted for 28 per cent of the world population in 2010.
- The proportion of people living in extreme poverty has been cut nearly in half – but economic inequality is now growing. The proportion of people living on less than $1.25 per day has fallen from 47 per cent in 1990 to 22 per cent in 2010.
- In the last 20 years, the world’s population grew by about a quarter, from 5.66 billion to 7.24 billion. Every one of the world’s 7.2 billion people – and every person still to come – deserves to have their human rights and dignity respected and protected.
- But the population is growing more slowly. Twenty years ago, the population was growing by 1.52 per cent per year. Today, it is growing by 1.15 per cent per year.
Guillen explains the demographic, economic and technological changes we can expect to see across the world in the next decade.
- The vaccine miracle—and cautionary message. The development of COVID-19 vaccines was remarkably rapid, with those most vulnerable to the virus in rich countries inoculated within a year of the pandemic breaking out.
- Technology’s double-edged sword. If science came out of the pandemic a winner, technology was a close second. Without computers and connectivity, the lockdowns could have ground most economic activity to halt.
- Here comes deglobalization. The developing world has lost many of the benefits of globalization—at least for the time being. A significant portion of the once-rising global middle class slid back into poverty as a result of the pandemic and its economic ramifications, reversing perhaps humanity’s biggest achievement in recent decades.
- The deepening of domestic disorders. Today there is more inequality not just between developed and developing countries, but also within many of these countries themselves.
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