stories

How the world is being redrawn, one story at a time. Open a story and read it plate by plate, in order.

story · 10 plates Africa's century The continent where the next generations will live: its people, its cities, its money and its power. story · 9 plates Egypt and the Arab world Egypt's growth, the Gulf's rise and the region's food, water and trade, one shift at a time. story · 10 plates India's rise People, payments, markets and code: where India has caught up with the world's leaders, or passed them. story · 11 plates China's machine Ships, power, robots, reactors and cities: the scale of what China now builds, and where it is slowing. story · 12 plates People: ageing, growing, moving Fewer babies, more centenarians and more people on the move: how the shape of humanity is changing. story · 11 plates Trade and money rewired Who trades with whom, which currencies move, and where debt and savings now flow. story · 8 plates The tech race Research, patents, chips, satellites and data centres: who now leads the technologies that shape the next decade. story · 11 plates The energy switch Solar, nuclear, geothermal and gas: who makes the world's power now, and how fast it is changing. story · 8 plates Who feeds the world The countries that now grow, ship and buy the world's food, and the shocks that move its price. story · 8 plates Arms and alliances Weapons, warheads, peacekeepers and diplomats: how military and diplomatic weight is shifting. story · 7 plates A planet under pressure Heat, fire, drought and forests: the measurable ways the planet is changing where life and work happen.