February, 2025

Global trends: results of 2024

In 2023, SBS Consulting conducted a study of global trends, forecasts and estimates of the future, selecting the most interesting ones on the horizon of the first half of the 21st century (until 2050).

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Innovation

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The current study summarizes the results of monitoring global trends, highlights events and facts that have confirmed or changed the trends we previously identified.
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Sergei Koroteev

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Aleksey Kalinin

State Consulting Practice Director

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