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The IMF’s 2025 Financial Access Survey reported that digital transactions, including mobile money and mobile and internet banking, rose from 55 per adult in 2017 to 251 in 2024.
Data includedIn OECD’s 2025 analysis, 13.9% of businesses in the OECD area and 13.5% in the EU-27 used AI solutions in 2024.
Data includedAnnual greenhouse-gas emissions need to fall 42% by 2030 and 57% by 2035 from 2019 levels.
Data includedWIPO’s 2025 indicators report counted 3.7 million patent applications worldwide in 2024, a 4.9% annual increase.
Data includedSurface temperature was 1.55 ± 0.13°C above 1850–1900. WMO cautioned against conflating a single year with the long-term threshold.
Data includedAnnual surface temperature exceeded the 1991–2020 average by about 0.86°C. North Africa’s anomaly was 1.28°C.
Data includedAsia’s mean temperature was about 1.04°C above 1991–2020. Record ranking varies by dataset.
Data includedAbout one third of meteorological and hydrological services provided essential climate services in 2024; a similar share was advanced or full.
Data includedThe 2025 index covers 403 ports and over 175,000 vessel calls during 2020–2024.
Data includedThe World Bank’s 2025 digital progress report says internet penetration in lower-middle-income countries reached 68% in 2024, up from 64% in 2022.
Data includedThe World Bank PPI report recorded $100.7bn across 315 projects in low- and middle-income countries, versus $87.1bn in 2023.
Data includedNCSES reported that U.S. federal agency R&D obligations fell from $190.5 billion in FY2022 to $186.4 billion in FY2023.
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