Since 2012, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has published the Global Risks Report every year in time for the meeting in Davos. The report comprehensively analyzes short and long-term global risks and classifies them according to their severity and probability of occurrence.

Below you can see the 10 most important long-term (10 years) and short-term risks (2 years) identified in the reports for 2024 and 2023.

A comparison of the two years shows that ecological issues such as extreme weather events and biodiversity loss represent the most serious risks in the long term. The short-term view also shows that technological risks, such as the spread of misinformation or cyberattacks, and geopolitical risks, such as interstate conflicts, are of considerable relevance.