2030

17-12-2020
Author(s): Mauro F. Guillen
Publication Number: ECES-SB129
Issued in: 2020

Overview*

The world is changing drastically before our eyes—will you be prepared for what comes next? A groundbreaking analysis from one of the world’s foremost experts on global trends, including analysis on how COVID-19 will amplify and accelerate each of these changes. By 2030, a new reality will take hold, and before you know it:

  • There will be more grandparents than grandchildren.
  • The middle-class in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will outnumber the US and Europe combined.
  • The global economy will be driven by the non-Western consumer for the first time in modern history.
  • There will be more robots than workers.

All these trends, currently underway, will converge in the year 2030 and change everything you know about culture, the economy, and the world.