Chief Economists Outlook: January 2025

The September 2024 Chief Economists Outlook highlights ongoing economic uncertainty. While the short-term global outlook is stabilizing, challenges persist, with most economists expecting conditions to either remain unchanged or weaken.

This May 2024 edition of the Chief Economists Outlook launches amid a mood of cautious optimism about the global economy. This optimism is tempered by the uncertainty about geopolitical and domestic political developments.

The January 2024 Chief Economists Outlook presents a critical analysis amid economic slowdown and heightened uncertainty. The report highlights the fragile state of the global economy, struggling under the weight of political and financial challenges.

The September 2023 Chief Economists Outlook is published amid slowing global momentum and continuing economic uncertainty.

The January 2023 Chief Economists Outlook is published amid continuing economic uncertainty and challenges of historic proportions. As the world puts another tumultuous year behind it, governments, businesses and households will all have to grapple with persistent headwinds throughout 2023. Financial conditions remain tight, with little scope for significant loosening, despite much of the world economy being at risk of recession. However, according to the latest survey of the World Economic Forum’s Community of Chief Economists, there are tentative grounds for optimism, including the prospect of an easing of the cost-of-living and energy crises by the end of this year.

Discover the latest economic trends and insights from leading chief economists in the May 2023 Chief Economists Outlook. This latest edition of the Chief Economists Outlook explores the key trends in the economic environment, including the prospects for growth, inflation and monetary policy.

This Chief Economists Outlook explores many of the key forces currently driving the global economy and roiling the lives of people and businesses across the world. These include inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, food and energy security, monetary policy, labour market disruption, sovereign and corporate debt dynamics and increasing global fragmentation. The report draws on the collective views and individual perspectives of a group of leading Chief Economists, through the Forum’s Chief Economists Survey and consultations with the Chief Economists Community.

This Chief Economists Outlook examines fragile growth, economic polarization, and uncertainty, highlighting the need for strengthened policy agility and business reform to foster better economic outcomes.

This quarterly briefing builds on the latest policy research as well as consultations and surveys with leading chief economists from both the public and private sectors, organized by the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the New Economy and Society.

The November 2021 Chief Economists Outlook examines COVID-19 resurgence, global economic disequilibrium, and emerging costs of combating climate change, highlighting the challenges ahead.

The May 2022 edition of the Chief Economists Outlook comes out amid extremely high uncertainty about geopolitical developments, the trajectory of the global economy and the next steps for economic policy.

The June edition of the Chief Economists Outlook comes out amid improving aggregate recovery momentum, yet in a profoundly uncertain environment with widely diverging trajectories.