Today’s episode summarises some of the groundbreaking analysis of the business, economic, and technological trends of today to predict what the world will look like in 2030 – and how the Coronavirus pandemic will accelerate each of these major trends.
This mind-opening episode summarises some of the groundbreaking analysis of the business, economic, and technological trends of today to predict what the world will look like in 2030 – and how the Coronavirus pandemic will accelerate each of these major trends.
Our guest is author of “2030: How Today’s Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything”, Mauro Guillén
Some stats from the book:
Birthplace of the next industrial revolution: sub-Saharan Africa
The reason: 500 million acres of fertile yet undeveloped agricultural land
The size of Mexico: 500 million acres
Percentage of the world’s wealth owned by women in 2000: 15
Percentage of the world’s wealth owned by women in 2030: 55
If Lehman Brothers had been Lehman Sisters: global financial crisis averted
Worldwide, the number of people who went hungry in 2017: 821 million
Worldwide, the number of people who will go hungry in 2030: 200 million
Worldwide, the number of people who were obese in 2017: 650 million
Worldwide, the number of people who will be obese in 2030: 1.1 billion
Percentage of Americans projected to be obese in 2030: 50
Percentage of the world’s land occupied by cities in 2030: 1.1
Percentage of the world’s population living in cities in 2030: 60
Percentage of worldwide carbon emissions produced by cities in 2030: 87
Percentage of world’s urban population exposed to rising sea levels in 2030: 80
The largest middle-class consumer market today: United States and Western Europe
The largest middle-class consumer market in 2030: China
By 2030, the number of people entering the middle class in emerging markets: 1 billion
The number of people currently in the middle class in the United States: 223 million
The number of people in the middle class in the United States in 2030: 209 million
More about Mauro:
http://www.mauroguillen.com
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