Global Risks Report 2025
World Economic Forum
(with thanks to Commonwealth Nurses and Midwives Federation)
On 16 January, The World Economic Forum released its Global Risks Report 2025 (20th edition).
The Report highlights the latest findings from the annual Global Risks Perception Survey, a survey of over 900 leaders from academia, business, government, international organisations, and civil society. The report looks at three time zones: the present, two
years’ time, and 10 years’ time.
For 2025, the ten top risks are seen to be:
1. State based armed conflict,
2. Extreme weather events,
3. Geo-economic confrontation,
4. Misinformation and disinformation,
5. Societal polarisation,
6. Economic downturn,
7. Critical change to Earth systems,
8. Lack of economic opportunity or unemployment,
9. Erosion of human rights and/or civic freedoms, and
10. Inequality.
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https://www.weforum.org/publications/globalrisks-report-2025/
COMMENT (NPW): The full text of the report reveals that Misinformation and disinformation is predicted to be the *top* risk in 2027. Let's say that again: Misinformation and disinformation is predicted to be the number 1 risk facing the world's population in 2027, even greater than state based armed conflict, extreme weather events, and geo-economic confrontation.
Now more than ever we need to build a world where every person has access to the reliable healthcare information they need to protect their own health and the health of others; a world where every person is empowered to differentiate reliable healthcare information from misinformation.
HIFA has agreed a Collaboration Plan 2025-2027 with the World Health Organization. https://publicspace.who.int/sites/GEM/official_relations_details.aspx?id... HIFA is solely responsible for securing all the income needed to deliver the Plan in official relations with WHO.
We invite your organisation to demonstrate your support for universal access to reliable healthcare information. You can make an unrestricted donation or you can allocate it to the WHO Collaboration plan or a specific HIFA Project or other activity. Twenty-one organisations have already done so and we gratefully recognise them on the HIFA homepage: www.hifa.org and in our latest news item https://www.hifa.org/news/hifa-partner-initiative-hifa-recognises-21-org...
1. Make a financial contribution through our dedicated fundraising platform:
https://hifa.online-donation.co.uk/general
or by bank transfer to:
Account name: Healthcare Information For All (HIFA)
Account number: 65873036
IBAN: GB36 CPBK 089299 65873036
Bank: Co-operative Bank, UK
Sort code: 08-92-99
or
2. Contact us to discuss options for technical/in-kind support:
neil@hifa.org / admin@hifa.org
With thanks, Neil
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org