Our blog’s Chart of the Week series tracked how the global economy evolved in 2025, with the top five charts highlighting some of the key issues shaping economic and policy discussions.

Our annual global real GDP growth projections for 2025-27 are broadly unchanged in September’s update, but this masks divergent national revisions. US rate cuts have resumed, although we still expect ...

Global debt has stabilized, though it remains at an elevated level, as a continued reduction in private-sector lending offset greater borrowing by governments. Total debt was little changed last year, ...

Global economic growth is on track for its weakest decade since the 1960s, according to a new analysis by the World Bank, which cites President Donald Trump’s trade war as a major factor weighing on ...

The International Monetary Fund has just warned of slowing global economic growth in its latest analysis. Similar to this finding, a newly issued report reveals the world’s wealthiest countries by ...

Global economic conditions have been resilient to trade-related uncertainties, but worries about a potential AI bubble add to an already long list of concerns. Equity-related wealth effects are ...