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130 free reports built from primary sources such as government statistics agencies, international organisations and industry bodies.
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Financial Inclusion: Global Findex 2025 Account Ownership, Gender Gap and India's Jan Dhan
Financial inclusion data: 79% of adults hold an account (Findex 2025), the gender gap, regional gains and India's 58.63 crore PMJDY accounts.
Global Employment and Labour Markets: Jobs Gap, Informality and Working Poverty
ILO Employment and Social Trends 2026 data: a 408 million global jobs gap, 2.1 billion informal workers and nearly 300 million in extreme working poverty.
Global GDP and Economic Growth: IMF Projections for 2026 and 2027
IMF July 2026 projections: world growth of 3.0% in 2026, with advanced vs emerging economies, the US, China, India, the euro area and regions compared.
Global Inflation: IMF Headline Consumer Price Projections 2024-2027
IMF projects global headline inflation rising from 4.1% in 2025 to 4.7% in 2026 before easing to 3.9% in 2027, driven by energy and food prices.
Global Mobile Data Usage: Traffic, GB per Smartphone and Forecasts
Mobile data traffic worldwide: 146 EB per month in 2025, 22 GB per smartphone, video at about 75% of traffic, and Ericsson forecasts to 2031.
Global Residential Property Prices: BIS Data for Q1 2026
BIS data on global house prices in Q1 2026: real price changes in advanced and emerging economies, country rankings and long-term trends since the GFC.
Global Trade: WTO Merchandise and Services Trade Outlook 2026-2027
WTO forecasts world merchandise trade volume growth slowing from 4.6% in 2025 to 1.9% in 2026, with services trade at 4.8%. Scenarios and Q1 2026 data.
Global Unemployment: Headline Rate, Youth Unemployment and NEET Rates
Global unemployment is projected at 4.9% in 2026 (186 million). Youth unemployment reached 12.4% in 2025 and 257 million young people are NEET.
Global Digital Connectivity: 5G Coverage, Usage Gap and Affordability
Who is covered and who connects: ITU 5G coverage and mobile broadband affordability data, plus GSMA coverage gap and usage gap figures by region.
Global Digital Payments: Account Ownership, Merchant Payments and Mobile Money
Global digital payments data from the World Bank Global Findex 2025 and GSMA: 79% of adults hold an account and mobile money handled over $2 trillion in 2025.
Global Electricity Market: Demand, Generation Mix and Renewables Share
Global electricity data: renewables reached 33.8% of generation in 2025 and overtook coal, while demand rose 849 TWh (Ember); IEA 2024 demand growth.
Global Fixed Broadband: Subscriptions, Fibre Share and Speeds
Fixed broadband worldwide: ITU puts penetration at 20 per 100 people in 2025; OECD fibre share hit 47% in 2024. Speeds, FWA and forecasts.
Global Food Security and Hunger: SOFI 2026 Key Statistics
FAO SOFI 2026 data on undernourishment, moderate or severe food insecurity, regional gaps and the cost of a healthy diet in 2025.
Global Foreign Direct Investment: UNCTAD World Investment Report Data
UNCTAD data: global FDI rose 6% to $1.6 trillion in 2025 after two years of decline. Developed vs developing flows, LDCs and greenfield projects.
Global Internet Usage: Users Online, People Offline and the Income Divide
ITU data on global internet use: 6 billion people online in 2025, 2.2 billion offline, and the gap between high-income and low-income countries.
Global Mobile Money: Accounts, Transactions and Growth
GSMA reports 2.3 billion registered mobile money accounts and USD 2 trillion in annual transaction value in 2025, which has doubled from USD 1 trillion in 2021.
Global Social Media Usage: Meta Daily Users and Ad Revenue
Social media scale through Meta's results: 3.58 billion daily active people in December 2025 and USD 200.97 billion revenue for full year 2025.
Global Urbanization: UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025 Data
UN World Urbanization Prospects 2025: 45% of the world's 8.2 billion people live in cities, up from 20% in 1950, with 33 megacities and projections to 2050.
Global Vaccination Coverage: DTP, Measles and Zero-Dose Children
WHO and UNICEF estimates of global childhood vaccination for 2024 and 2025: DTP coverage, measles coverage and the number of zero-dose children.
Mobile Money and Mobile Payments: GSMA 2025 Accounts, Activity and Transaction Value
GSMA mobile money data for 2025: 2.3 billion registered accounts, 593 million monthly active accounts and more than $2 trillion in transactions.
Global AI Investment: Where the Money Goes
Private investment in artificial intelligence by country, and how much flows to generative AI, based on the Stanford AI Index 2025.
Global Data Centres and Internet Infrastructure: Electricity Use to 2030
IEA data on data centre power: 415 TWh used in 2024, about 1.5% of world electricity, and a base case of around 945 TWh by 2030 as AI grows.
Global Defense Spending: SIPRI Military Expenditure Data
World military expenditure reached USD 2.7 trillion in 2024, up 9.4% year on year, the 10th consecutive annual rise and the highest level recorded by SIPRI.
Global Diabetes Statistics: Prevalence, Treatment Gap and Deaths
Diabetes worldwide: adult prevalence doubled to 14% from 1990 to 2022, 445 million untreated, 1.6 million deaths, plus IDF estimates to 2050.
Global Digital Economy: E-commerce Sales and Digitally Deliverable Services
UNCTAD data: business e-commerce sales reached USD 28 trillion in 2024 and global digitally deliverable services exports were USD 4.5 trillion in 2023.
Global Energy Investment
Total energy investment worldwide, the shift toward clean energy, and spending by region and technology, from the IEA's World Energy Investment 2024.
Global Extreme Poverty: People Living Below USD 3.00 a Day
World Bank September 2026 update: 824.3 million people, 10.1% of the world, lived below the USD 3.00 a day poverty line in 2024.
Global Housing: Slums, Informal Settlements and Affordability
About 1.16 billion urban residents lived in slums or informal settlements in 2024. UN SDG 11.1 data on housing adequacy, regions and affordability.
Global Infrastructure Investment: Private Participation in Developing Countries
World Bank PPI data: private infrastructure investment in low- and middle-income countries reached USD 100.7 billion across 315 projects in 2024.
Global Maritime Trade: UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport
UNCTAD data show 12.1 billion metric tons of goods were loaded for international maritime trade in 2024, up 3.9% from 2023 and above the long-run average since 2000.
Global Mortality: Leading Causes of Death, Child and Maternal Deaths
Leading causes of death worldwide, under-five deaths and maternal mortality, using WHO Global Health Estimates and UN IGME child mortality data.
Global Obesity Statistics: Adults and Children Overweight
WHO obesity data: 2.5 billion adults overweight and 890 million obese in 2022, child and teen trends since 1990, deaths and projected costs.
Global Online Shopping: Who Shops Online in the EU and Developing Economies
77% of EU internet users shopped online in 2024, up from 57% in 2010. Country shares across the EU and World Bank Findex data on online buying.
Global Population: UN World Population Prospects 2024
UN WPP 2024: world population of 8.2 billion in 2024, projected to peak at about 10.3 billion in the mid-2080s, plus fertility, life expectancy and ageing data.
Global Remittances: Flows to Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Top Recipients
World Bank/KNOMAD remittance data: $685 billion to low- and middle-income countries in 2024, with India and Mexico the top recipients.
India UPI Digital Payments: Volume and Value
How India's Unified Payments Interface became the country's main real-time payment system, using government and Reserve Bank of India data.
US Health Care Spending
Total US health care spending, spending per person and its share of the economy, from the official National Health Expenditure Accounts.
Global CO2 Emissions: Energy and All-Gas Totals
IEA reports global energy-related CO2 emissions rose 1.1% in 2023 to a new high, adding 410 Mt. EDGAR puts total greenhouse gas emissions at 53.0 Gt CO2eq in 2023.
Global Health Infrastructure: Hospital Beds and Doctors per 1,000 People
Hospital beds and physicians per 1,000 people by country from World Bank data, with definitions, the WHO staffing benchmark and comparability limits.
Global Health Workforce: Nurses, Shortages and 2030 Projections
How many nurses the world has, the size of the global nursing shortage and WHO's projected health worker shortfall to 2030, from WHO data.
Global Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy: Trends and COVID-19 Impact
Global life expectancy and healthy life expectancy from 2000 to 2021, the COVID-19 drop, and OECD country averages, based on WHO and OECD data.
Global Mental Health Statistics: Prevalence, Suicide and Care Gaps
WHO data on mental disorders worldwide: 1.2 billion people affected in 2023, anxiety and depression counts, 727,000 suicides a year and gaps in care.
Global Public Transport: Urban Access Under SDG Indicator 11.2.1
UN data on how many city residents have convenient access to public transport, with gaps between least developed countries and developed regions.
Global Renewable Energy Capacity Additions
How much new renewable power capacity the world added in 2023, the role of solar and China, and what tripling capacity by 2030 would take.
Global Migration: International Migrants, Remittances and Displacement
IOM World Migration Report 2024 data: 281 million international migrants, USD 831 billion in remittances in 2022 and 117 million people displaced.
Global Health Spending
How much the world spends on health and what share of global GDP it represents, based on World Health Organization data.