today plate 391 · leapfrog · 2025 data

Thirteen countries flew spacecraft beyond Earth orbit, up from six

  • 6 → 13 Countries with a spacecraft sent to the Moon or beyond: 6 in 2006–15, 13 in 2016–25. No period before 2006 had more than 4.
  • 7 First-timers in 2016–25: Israel, the UAE, South Korea, Italy, Pakistan, France and Uruguay. Russia returned, its first since Soviet probes in 1988.
  • 7 of 8 Newcomers whose craft rode another country's rocket (US, Japanese or Chinese): a ride, not a rocket of one's own, now opens deep space.
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live from the progrss vault 27.5M data points 220 primary publishers 20+ satellites 100% traceable to source the progrss engine →

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390 new routes India rose from 21st to ninth in telecom equipment exports 389 new routes Bangladesh added a fifth of new debt owed to governments 388 hotter planet Zambia's yearly tree loss rose by nearly half 387 power shift Chengdu passed Guangzhou as China's third-busiest air city 386 power shift India made two-fifths of the world's extra cow's milk 385 new routes Laos went from 2% to 17% of China's potash imports 384 people on the move Older people outnumber children in 38 countries, up from 10 383 people on the move Sub-Saharan Africa added over a third of working-age growth 382 power shift Niger's onion harvest tripled, entering the world's top ten
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Africa's century54 plates The continent where the next generations will live: its people, its cities, its money and its power. Egypt and the Arab world31 plates Egypt's growth, the Gulf's rise and the region's food, water and trade, one shift at a time. India's rise23 plates People, payments, markets and code: where India has caught up with the world's leaders, or passed them.