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Recording & Slides: Key Trends in 2025 Webinar

This week, the Visual Capitalist team kicked off the 2025 Global Forecast Series with a free webinar on key trends. In case you missed it, VC+ members get access to:

🎥 Webinar recording on trends
📊 Annotated slides with commentary and visuals
🔮 Upcoming 2025 Global Forecast Series once available

There’s two rival groups wrestling for influence within the 20 largest economies. Here’s who they are and how they compare.
 

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This graphic shows a breakdown of U.S. debt composition, categorized by domestic and foreign investors as well as intragovernmental holdings.
 

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This infographic ranks the top performing S&P 500 stocks over four different time periods, providing unique historical insight.
 

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In 2023, over 2.3 billion people worldwide faced moderate or severe food insecurity—a staggering 45% increase from 1.6 billion in 2015.
 

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Since 2005, digital service exports have grown by more than fourfold, outpacing services and goods exports by a wide margin.
 

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Online shopping has risen steadily, spiking in the fourth quarter each year due to Black Friday and holiday spending.
 

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Within this group of seven advanced economies, there’s one outperformer. Here’s a per country breakdown of the G7 economy.
 

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The Magnificent 7 accounts for nearly $16T of the S&P 500's $46T market cap. This creates potential concentration risk for investors.
 

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Half of the 7,000 deaths every hour worldwide occur in just six countries. Here’s which ones and how many happen in each.
 

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