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The World in 2011

Welcome to The World in 2011 channel. The World in 2011 celebrates 25 years of opinions and predictions and is now available for purchase on newsstands everywhere and from the Economist store. More »

The World in Multimedia

Bill Clinton, Steven Chu and K'naan join people from across the world—and Antarctica—to offer their thoughts on what might happen in 2011 More »

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Cassandra

"A thief should sit in jail..."

The conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oil tycoon, is a sobering reminder that the Russia of Vladimir Putin is surely a throwback to the bad old days of the totalitarian state. More »

Define the nation...

On January 9th, if all goes to expectations, the people of the autonomous southern part of Sudan will vote for independence and the world can look forward to a new country—and the United Nations to a new member state, its 193rd. More »

World in Figures

Brazil

Will new president, Dilma Rousseff, continue the macroeconomic policies of her mentor and predecessor, Lula da Silva, once she takes office in January 2011? More »

Cuba

Will 2011 see further economic reforms in Cuba and if so, will those reforms be just a trickle or a counter-revolutionary flood? More »

From our archives

Looking back on the future

In 2006 historian Niall Ferguson looked back at our record of hits and misses to mark the 20th anniversary of The World In. More »

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World population

The seventh billion

The planet's population is hurtling towards 7 billion. But its growth will start to slow More »

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