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This is an excerpt of the publication “Global Risks Report 2024”, published by the World Economic Forum, on January 2024″
FIGURE B Current risk landscape
“Please select up to five risks that you believe are most likely to present a material crisis on a global scale in 2024.”
Source World Economic Forum Global Risks Perception Survey 2023-2024.
FIGURE C Global risks ranked by severity over the short and long term (“Please estimate the likely impact (severity) of the following risks over a 2-year and 10-year period.”)
However, as truth is undermined, the risk of domestic propaganda and censorship will also rise in turn.
In response to mis- and disinformation, governments could be increasingly empowered to control information based on what they determine to be “true”.
Freedoms relating to the internet, press and access to wider sources of information that are already in decline risk descending into broader repression of information flows across a wider set of countries.
Societal polarization features among the top three risks over both the current and two-year time horizons, ranking #9 over the longer term.
In addition, Societal polarization and Economic downturn are seen as the most interconnected – and therefore influential – risks in the global risks network (Figure D), as drivers and possible consequences of numerous risks.
