predictions Archive

“Economic fitness” is a measure that seeks to capture the range and sophistication of the goods a country produces and Economic Fitness has proven to be better at predicting future economic growth. New research has demonstrated that the “fitness” technique …

In 2011 Nextbigfuture projected a Mundane Singularity, where certain emerging technologies would start to have development and impact by Dec 2016. There were various updates and the last update was in January of 2017. I need to update and alter …

In 1999, Bill Gates net worth surpassed $100 billion. Bill Gates has since given tens of billions to charity to help cure Malaria in Africa and for other anti-poverty causes. Warren Buffet would also likely have surpassed $100 billion if …

India’s official statisticians released the real 2017Q2 GDP growth number last week—5.7% over the equivalent quarter of the previous year. This was below the 6.5% consensus estimate of economists. India’s economy has been growing less and less healthy for awhile. …

The IMF has a relatively smooth forecast for nominal GDP growth out to 2022 for all countries. The forecast China to close the gap from $7 trillion less than the USA in nominal GDP in 2020 to $6 trillion less …

The World Bank defines the global middle class within a large income range anywhere between $11 and $110 a day. Homi Kharas, an expert on the global middle class at the Brookings Institute, estimated in a recent study that 3.2 …

The travel and tourism industry has grown dramatically in the past decades, reaching nearly 1.2 billion international arrivals in 2015, compared to 25 million in 1950. That’s a growth of 4,700%. Various projection are for international arrivals to reach 1.8 …