The Economist The World Ahead 2025 Review. Whoever could have predicted a pandemic would shut down the majority of the world in 2020? Just weeks into 2025, donald trump’s return to the american presidency is furiously upending established protocol.

Our annual publication, the world ahead , considers the outlook across. In its 39th year, the world ahead edition discusses a broad range of topics, but its top ten themes for 2025, distilled from its pages, are as follows: