2024 will put a spotlight on the global state of democracy as more people than ever head to the polls
LONDON, Nov. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Economist has launched The World Ahead, an annual special year-end issue from The Economist that examines important themes, trends and events that will shape the coming year. The editor's top ten themes for 2024 and the accompanying articles are online today on https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead-2024. The full edition will be available digitally from November 16th, and, for the first time, included in The Economist's weekly print edition dated November 18th. The standalone print issue will be available on global newsstands from November 29th (later in the United States due to the Thanksgiving holiday).
- The World Ahead's aim is to help you keep your worldview up to date—and tell you what might be coming next."
- The World Ahead discusses a broad range of topics, but its top ten themes for 2024, distilled from its pages, are as follows:
Votearama! - Elections all over the world, for more voters than ever before, will put a spotlight on the global state of democracy.
- There will be more than 70 elections in 2024 in countries that are home to around 4.2bn people—for the first time, more than half of the global population.