The World in 2011

Leaders

Tremble, Leviathan

The coming year will see the first stages of a widespread and largely welcome attack on the scope of the state in rich countries, predicts John Micklethwait (1)

United States

Europe

Britain

The Americas

Asia

Middle East and Africa

International

The World in 2036

Business

Finance

Science

A fight to the death

Scientists should at long last be able to see a route to the total eradication of malaria (0)

The World in 2011 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 »

Cassandra

Our Cassandra blog accompanies The World in 2011, our almanac of predictions for the year ahead. The blog is named after the mythological Cassandra, who was cursed by Apollo to make prophecies that were accurate, but disbelieved More »

Obituary
The Incadescent lightbulb

The incandescent lightbulb is going out all over Europe and beyond

 

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Calendar 2011

Elephant

Our selection of events around the world More »

Explore past World in issues

Every year we make our predictions about the year to come. See where we were right, and where we were wrong

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World in Figures

 
The Economist Intelligence Unit looks at the The World in 2011 in figures by country and industry

  

Highlights
World population

The seventh billion

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

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