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102 Humanity Two in three people live where fertility is below replacement 101 Energy Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates 100 Food Russia now exports twice as much wheat as the US 099 Planet Kyoto's cherry blossoms now peak earliest in 1,200 years 098 Humanity Japan's foreign residents have doubled since 2012, passing 4 million 097 Technology Africa formally recycles less than 1% of its e-waste 096 Energy More than two in three cars Nepal imports are electric 095 Economy In dollars, Nigeria's economy has more than halved since 2014 094 Power Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined 093 Food Spanish olive oil mill prices are back at 2021 levels 092 Planet Heat that bleaches coral reached 84% of the world's reefs 091 Humanity Women in MENA now outpace men at university 090 Technology China's research spending rose from 12% to 88% of America's 089 Energy The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG 088 Economy Only the US draws more new foreign projects than the UAE 087 Power Algeria outspends all of sub-Saharan Africa on its military 086 Future One in ten in Japan will be foreign by 2070 085 Food China buys three in ten of the world's beef imports 084 Planet China adds more forest each year than any other country 083 Cities India's metro network quadrupled in a decade 082 Humanity Iran dropped from top refugee host to fifth in 2025 081 Technology India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined 080 Energy Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid 079 Economy Argentina's monthly inflation fell from 25.5% to 1.9% 078 Power China added more nuclear warheads than all other states combined 077 Future Nearly half the world's under-25s will be African by 2100 076 Food Egypt exports more fresh oranges than any other country 075 Planet India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006 074 Cities China's new housing starts have fallen 74% since 2019 073 Humanity Two in three newly licensed UK doctors qualified abroad 072 Technology Indian phone users now average 25 GB of data monthly 071 Energy Solar now makes more of Brazil's power than fossil fuels 070 Economy India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000 069 Power Nepal sends more UN peacekeepers than all five veto powers 068 Future More than a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric 067 Food Brazil exports more chicken than the US and EU combined 066 Planet Canada's 2023 fires burned more than twice the old record 065 Cities China has more metro track than the next six countries combined 064 Humanity Japan now has over 100,000 centenarians, up from 153 063 Technology Nearly two in three people in Africa are still offline 062 Energy France swung from power importer to record exporter 061 Economy Poles edge past the Japanese in income per person 060 Power Poland spends more of its economy on defence than America 059 Future Egypt is set to outgrow Japan in 2027, then Russia 058 Food India now ships over a third of world rice exports 057 Planet Swiss glaciers lost more than 5% of their ice in 2026 056 Cities Jakarta, not Tokyo, is the world's largest city 055 Humanity India now has more working-age people than China 054 Technology China spends more importing chips than crude oil 053 Energy China now uses more electricity per person than the EU 052 Economy China's ASEAN trade is now almost double its US trade 051 Power Ukraine is now the world's biggest arms importer 050 Energy China is building half the world's new reactors 049 Technology Two in three working satellites are now Starlinks 048 Planet Drought cut Panama Canal transits by a fifth in 2024 047 Economy India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa 046 Economy Developing countries' interest bill has nearly tripled since 2010 045 Economy Tether now holds more US Treasuries than the UAE 044 Economy Migrants now send home four times more than all foreign aid 043 Energy India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales 042 Humanity China is projected to have fewer than half its people by 2100 041 Power China refines most of the minerals of the future 040 Planet Saudi Arabia has more desalination capacity than the entire US 039 Technology Two-thirds of the world's mobile money moves in Africa 038 Economy America's duty-free parcels grew almost tenfold in nine years 037 Power DR Congo mines three-quarters of the world's cobalt 036 Planet Tropical forests lost a record 6.7 million hectares in 2024 035 Food Farmed seafood now outweighs the wild catch 034 Food Middle East and North Africa import 27% of world wheat 033 Food Brazil has all but caught the US in farm exports 032 Cities China completed six in ten of 2025's new skyscrapers 031 Technology Ireland's data centres now use more power than its city homes 030 Energy India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people 029 Cities Japan has 9 million empty homes: one in seven 028 Cities Kinshasa will soon be bigger than Paris and London combined 027 Humanity More Christians now live in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else 026 Humanity Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US 025 Humanity Three in four UAE residents are international migrants 024 Humanity South Korea now has a quarter of the babies it had in 1971 023 Humanity Half of Niger is under 16; half of Japan over 50 022 Future SpaceX launches more rockets than the rest of Earth combined 021 Technology Nearly half of top AI researchers studied in China 020 Technology China files six times as many international patents as in 2010 019 Economy China's vehicle exports grew sevenfold in five years 018 Energy China switched on 80% of the world's new coal power 017 Power China now pays the world mostly in yuan 016 Power Russia's share of world arms exports fell from 21% to 7% 015 Power China runs the world's largest diplomatic network 014 Power Suez Canal traffic in 2025 was under half its 2023 record 013 Economy Six of the world's ten busiest ports are in China 012 Economy Mexico, not China, now sells America the most goods 011 Power Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel 010 Technology Four tech giants spent $358 billion on infrastructure in 2025 009 Technology China now leads research in 57 of 64 critical technologies 008 Future By 2100, DR Congo will have more people than the US 007 Humanity The world has already passed peak child 006 Technology China installs more robots than the rest of the world combined 005 Energy China now makes more electricity than the US and EU combined 004 Energy Africa's solar imports more than doubled since early 2024 003 Economy Central banks now hold more gold than euros or US Treasuries 002 Power China now builds more ships than the rest of the world 001 Humanity By 2100, more than 1 in 3 people will be African