Survey Predicts Global Warming, Economic Struggles, and AI Job Shifts in 2025

Approaching new year makes us wonder what will happen in the next year and what events can happen. As the time is passing by rapidly, a lot of things in the world are changing in seconds too. To know what people in different countries predict about the things happening in the new year, Ipsos conducted a survey of 23,700 people from 33 countries. This survey just talks about what general population think will happen in the next year and not the thoughts of analysts and experts. The results of the survey showed that people predict environmental, economical and technological change in the next year.

The most predictions respondents made were about climate change. 80% of the respondents said that they think average global temperatures will increase in 2025, with eight in ten respondents saying that the world will get warmer in the next year. Most of the respondents who had this belief were from Indonesia (91%), Philippines (89%) and Malaysia (88%). 72% of the respondents also think that the temperature of the region where they live will change in the next year. 52% of the respondents said that they think that their country’s government would introduce some measures to combat climate change. On the other hand, 84% respondents from China also said that they think their government will take measures to reduce carbon emissions to control climate change.

79% of the respondents predicted that they think prices of the products will increase more in 2025 but their incomes will remain the same or will only see a slight increase. Two thirds of the respondents also think that AI is going to take over jobs in 2025, but 43% think that AI will increase more opportunities for people in their countries. 59% said that they think many people will start living in virtual worlds in the next year, which is a 3% increase from 2022.

Respondents also predicted a new global pandemic by a new virus (47%) in 2025, while many people are hopeful that people in their countries will become tolerant of each other (33%) in the next year. There were also some predictions about the Ukraine war ending in 2025 (27%), which is about 3 in 10 respondents. The predictions about Middle East conflicts (Israel-Gaza war) ending in 2025 is a little less, with 2 in 10 or 22% respondents predicting it.

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World