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166 leapfrog Rwanda spread electricity faster than any country since 2014 165 new routes Factories now make more of Cambodia's economy than China's 164 people on the move Six in ten child deaths now happen in sub-Saharan Africa 163 hotter planet Africa now has more hungry people than Asia 162 people on the move Child marriage in South Asia has nearly halved since 2005 161 power shift Women hold at least half the seats in seven parliaments 160 leapfrog Open defecation in India fell from 73% to 7% 159 leapfrog Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels 158 people on the move Six of the ten fastest-growing big cities are African 157 power shift Mato Grosso grows more soy than China and India combined 156 hotter planet Three in four Bangkok residents now live on a floodplain 155 new routes Poland's digital service exports grew fivefold in a decade 154 going electric The Philippines is building more solar than it already runs 153 power shift India now holds more foreign reserves than Saudi Arabia 152 going electric Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power 151 new routes Indonesia set to use more palm oil than it exports 150 leapfrog Pakistan now gets more power from solar than from coal 149 people on the move Thailand's births have fallen below its deaths 148 power shift In purchasing power, Russia's economy is now bigger than Japan's 147 people on the move Nigeria now has almost 25 million more people than Brazil 146 people on the move Money sent home to Guatemala nearly quadrupled in ten years 145 going electric The price of lithium fell 86% in three years 143 people on the move Chile's fertility rate fell below Italy's and Japan's 142 going electric Egypt's sun and wind now outproduce its Nile dams 141 new routes More Vietnamese now work in industry than on farms 140 people on the move 34 countries and territories are past their population peak 139 leapfrog Brazilians now use Pix more often than all cards combined 135 power shift Côte d'Ivoire grows more cashews than India 134 power shift 22 governments now owe more than a year's national output 133 new routes Brazil mines 93% of the world's niobium 131 new routes Malaysia again sells more to America than to China 130 people on the move Sudan now has the world's most people displaced at home 129 power shift India now grows more rice than China 128 people on the move Egypt has more asylum seekers than Germany, Spain and Italy 127 new routes The EU now buys more US gas than Russian gas 126 going electric China is building more power capacity than everyone else combined 125 going electric Only 16 countries are building new coal power plants 124 new routes Laos now mines more potash than Israel or Jordan 123 new routes Singapore now draws twice as much foreign investment as China 122 power shift India published more science papers than Germany and Britain combined 121 new routes The UAE sold more goods abroad than France in 2025 120 power shift Ukraine received four times the aid of any other country 119 power shift Indians now file more patents at home than Germans 118 new routes Mexico's factories now outproduce Britain's and France's 117 people on the move Brazil now has more people over 65 than Germany 116 people on the move Nigeria's cities now hold more people than Japan's 115 people on the move DR Congo now has more children than Brazil 114 going electric Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power 113 power shift Guyana now produces more per person than America 112 new routes Dubai's airport handles more international travellers than Heathrow 111 going electric Argentina mined 60% more lithium in just one year 110 new routes Brazil overtook the US as the world's top cotton exporter 109 hotter planet Brazil's Amazon lost the least forest on record 108 leapfrog Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric 107 power shift China went from the world's top arms buyer to 21st 106 people on the move Japan's births fell below half their 1899 level 105 power shift Ukraine sells a fifth less grain than before the war 103 going electric Sun and wind now beat fossil fuels in Chile 102 people on the move Two in three people live where fertility is below replacement 101 going electric Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates 100 power shift Russia now exports twice as much wheat as the US 099 hotter planet Kyoto's cherry blossoms now peak earliest in 1,200 years 098 people on the move Japan's foreign residents have doubled since 2012, passing 4 million 097 hotter planet Africa formally recycles less than 1% of its e-waste 096 going electric More than two in three cars Nepal imports are electric 095 power shift In dollars, Nigeria's economy has more than halved since 2014 094 going electric Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined 093 hotter planet Spanish olive oil mill prices are back at 2021 levels 092 hotter planet Heat that bleaches coral reached 84% of the world's reefs 091 people on the move Women in MENA now outpace men at university 090 power shift China's research spending rose from 12% to 88% of America's 089 new routes The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG 088 new routes Only America draws more new foreign projects than the UAE 087 power shift Algeria outspends all of sub-Saharan Africa on its military 086 people on the move One in ten in Japan will be foreign by 2070 085 new routes China buys three in ten of the world's beef imports 084 hotter planet China adds more forest each year than any other country 083 power shift India's metro network quadrupled in a decade 082 people on the move Iran dropped from top refugee host to fifth in 2025 081 leapfrog India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined 080 going electric Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid 079 power shift Argentina's monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.9% 078 power shift China added more nuclear warheads than all other states combined 077 people on the move Nearly half the world's under-25s will be African by 2100 076 power shift Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country 075 hotter planet India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006 074 power shift China's new housing starts have fallen 74% since 2019 073 people on the move Two in three newly licensed UK doctors qualified abroad 072 leapfrog Indian phone users now average 25 GB of data monthly 071 going electric Solar now makes more of Brazil's power than fossil fuels 070 power shift India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000 069 power shift Nepal sends more UN peacekeepers than all five veto powers 068 going electric Over a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric 067 power shift Brazil exports more chicken than the US and EU combined 066 hotter planet Canada's 2023 fires burned more than twice the old record 065 power shift China has more metro track than the next six combined 064 people on the move Japan now has over 100,000 centenarians, up from 153 063 leapfrog Nearly two in three people in Africa are still offline 062 going electric France swung from power importer to record exporter 061 power shift Poles edge past the Japanese in income per person 060 power shift Poland spends more of its economy on defence than America 059 people on the move Egypt is set to outgrow Japan in 2027, then Russia 058 power shift India now ships over a third of world rice exports 057 hotter planet Swiss glaciers lost over 5% of their ice in 2026 056 people on the move Jakarta, not Tokyo, is the world's largest city 055 people on the move India now has more working-age people than China 054 new routes China spends more importing chips than crude oil 053 going electric China now uses more electricity per person than the EU 052 new routes China's ASEAN trade is now almost double its US trade 051 power shift Ukraine is now the world's biggest arms importer 050 going electric China is building half the world's new reactors 049 leapfrog Two in three working satellites are now Starlinks 048 hotter planet Drought cut Panama Canal transits by a fifth in 2024 047 leapfrog India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa 046 power shift Developing countries' interest bill has nearly tripled since 2010 045 new routes Tether now holds more US Treasuries than the UAE 044 people on the move Migrants now send home four times all foreign aid 043 new routes India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales 042 people on the move China's population is projected to more than halve by 2100 041 going electric China refines most of the minerals of the future 040 hotter planet Saudi Arabia has more desalination capacity than the entire US 039 leapfrog Two-thirds of the world's mobile money moves in Africa 038 new routes America's duty-free parcels grew almost tenfold in nine years 037 going electric DR Congo mines three-quarters of the world's cobalt 036 hotter planet Tropical forests lost a record 6.7 million hectares in 2024 035 hotter planet Farmed seafood now outweighs the wild catch 034 new routes Egypt is the world's biggest wheat buyer 033 power shift Brazil has all but caught the US in farm exports 032 power shift China completed six in ten of 2025's new skyscrapers 031 going electric Irish data centres now use more power than city homes 030 hotter planet India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people 029 people on the move Japan has 9 million empty homes: one in seven 028 people on the move Kinshasa will soon be bigger than Paris and London combined 027 people on the move More Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else 026 people on the move Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US 025 people on the move Three in four UAE residents are international migrants 024 people on the move South Korea now has a quarter of its 1971 births 023 people on the move Japan's median age is more than three times Niger's 022 power shift SpaceX launches more rockets than the rest of Earth combined 021 power shift Nearly half of top AI researchers studied in China 020 power shift China's international patent filings grew sixfold since 2010 019 power shift China's vehicle exports grew sevenfold in five years 018 going electric China switched on 80% of the world's new coal power 017 new routes China now pays the world mostly in yuan 016 power shift Russia's share of arms exports fell from 21% to 7% 015 power shift China runs the world's largest diplomatic network 014 new routes In 2025, Suez Canal traffic was under half its record 013 new routes Six of the world's ten busiest ports are in China 012 new routes Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods 011 going electric Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel 010 leapfrog Four tech giants spent $358 billion on infrastructure in 2025 009 power shift China leads research in 57 of 64 critical technologies 008 people on the move DR Congo is projected to outgrow the US by 2100 007 people on the move The world has already passed peak child 006 power shift China installs more robots than everyone else combined 005 power shift China makes more electricity than the US and EU combined 004 going electric Africa's solar imports more than doubled since early 2024 003 new routes Central banks now hold more gold than Treasuries or euros 002 power shift China now builds more ships than everyone else combined 001 people on the move By 2100, more than 1 in 3 people will be African