What Are the Most Important Risks the World is Facing? ⚠️

What We're Showing

The top 25 most important global risk as outlined in the United Nations Global Risk Report 2024.

Risk importance combines the likelihood and severity of a risk, with top risks seen as most likely to occur with severe impacts if or when they manifest.

Rankings are based on a survey of 1,100 stakeholders across 136 countries which includes representatives of government, industry, civil society, and academia.

Key Takeaways

• Across all regions, environmental risks emerged as the highest priority, with climate change inaction and large-scale pollution both seen as highly likely and highly severe.
• Societal and political risks like mis- and disinformation, rise in inequalities, geopolitical tensions, mass movement of people and large-scale wars ranked among the top ten risks.
• While environmental concerns were top of mind for all regions, other perceptions varied by region. For example, in North Africa and Asia, concerns about cybersecurity breakdowns and artificial intelligence (AI) were among the top ten risks, unlike in other regions.