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Executive Opinion Survey

Conducted in 2020 between January and July, the survey canvassed business leaders from 126 economies and received 11,860 responses.

Global Risk

An uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, can cause significant negative impact for several economies or sectors within the next 10 years.

Regional Business Perception of Risk

Weighted economy-level responses by GDP and population. See Methodology for more detail.

Global Business Perception of Risk

Simple average of regional business perceptions of risks.

Overview

PERCEIVED RISKS BY ECONOMY

ECONOMY	PERCEIVED RISK 1	PERCEIVED RISK 2	PERCEIVED RISK 3	PERCEIVED RISK 4	PERCEIVED RISK 5
Albania	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Natural catastrophes	Unmanageable inflation
Angola	Failure of national governance	Unemployment or underemployment	Unmanageable inflation	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases
Argentina	Unmanageable inflation	Profound social instability	Failure of national governance	Fiscal crises	Unemployment or underemployment
Armenia	Inter state conflict	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Large scale involuntary migration	Failure of critical infrastructure
Australia	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Energy price shock	Extreme weather events
Austria	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Large scale involuntary migration	Extreme weather events	Asset bubble
Azerbaijan	Spread of infectious diseases	Inter state conflict	Fiscal crises	Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse	Natural catastrophes
Bahrain	Energy price shock	Fiscal crises	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Cyber attacks
Bangladesh	Failure of national governance	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of urban planning	Failure of climate change adaptation
Barbados	Extreme weather events	Natural catastrophes	Spread of infectious diseases	Water crises	Fiscal crises
Belarus	Fiscal crises	Spread of infectious diseases	Energy price shock	State collapse or crisis	Unemployment or underemployment
Belgium	Cyber attacks	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Data fraud or theft	Natural catastrophes
Benin	Cyber attacks	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Spread of infectious diseases
Bolivia	Profound social instability	State collapse or crisis	Illicit trade	Failure of national governance	Unemployment or underemployment
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Failure of national governance	Profound social instability	Large scale involuntary migration	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment
Botswana	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of urban planning	Failure of critical infrastructure	Water crises	Cyber attacks
Brazil	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of national governance	Fiscal crises	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases
Bulgaria	Large scale involuntary migration	Failure of national governance	Human made environmental catastrophes	Inter state conflict	Failure of regional and global governance
Burundi	Unemployment or underemployment	Fiscal crises	Unmanageable inflation	Energy price shock	Food crises
Cambodia	Asset bubble	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Energy price shock	Extreme weather events
Cameroon	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Illicit trade	Failure of national governance	Failure of critical infrastructure
Canada	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Fiscal crises	Data fraud or theft
Cape Verde	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Water crises	Energy price shock	Food crises
Chad	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Illicit trade
Chile	Profound social instability	Water crises	Spread of infectious diseases	Natural catastrophes	State collapse or crisis
China	Asset bubble	Spread of infectious diseases	Inter state conflict	Natural catastrophes	Human made environmental catastrophes
Colombia	Unemployment or underemployment	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Large scale involuntary migration
Congo	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of critical infrastructure	Profound social instability	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases
Costa Rica	Fiscal crises	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of critical infrastructure	Illicit trade	State collapse or crisis
Côte d'Ivoire	Cyber attacks	Unemployment or underemployment	Profound social instability	Failure of national governance	Energy price shock
Croatia	Failure of national governance	Large scale involuntary migration	Profound social instability	Unemployment or underemployment	Asset bubble
Cyprus	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Asset bubble	Inter state conflict	Fiscal crises
Czech Republic	Fiscal crises	Cyber attacks	Asset bubble	Unemployment or underemployment	Large scale involuntary migration
Denmark	Fiscal crises	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of climate change adaptation	Data fraud or theft
Dominican Republic	Fiscal crises	Energy price shock	Natural catastrophes	Extreme weather events	Spread of infectious diseases
Ecuador	Unemployment or underemployment	Profound social instability	Fiscal crises	Failure of national governance	State collapse or crisis
Egypt	Water crises	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Unmanageable inflation	Cyber attacks
El Salvador	Unemployment or underemployment	Profound social instability	Water crises	Fiscal crises	Large scale involuntary migration
Estonia	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks	Asset bubble	Failure of national governance	Unemployment or underemployment
Finland	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Cyber attacks	Failure of climate change adaptation	Large scale involuntary migration
France	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Cyber attacks	Failure of climate change adaptation
Georgia	Inter state conflict	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks
Germany	Cyber attacks	Large scale involuntary migration	Asset bubble	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment
Ghana	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Failure of critical infrastructure	Energy price shock	Spread of infectious diseases
Greece	Fiscal crises	Large scale involuntary migration	Unemployment or underemployment	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of financial mechanism or institution
Guatemala	Failure of critical infrastructure	Illicit trade	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment
Guinea	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse	Energy price shock
Honduras	Profound social instability	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Failure of national governance	Water crises
Hong Kong	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases	Asset bubble	Inter state conflict	Cyber attacks
Hungary	Extreme weather events	Spread of infectious diseases	Profound social instability	Unemployment or underemployment	Human made environmental catastrophes
Iceland	Extreme weather events	Natural catastrophes	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks	Fiscal crises
India	Unemployment or underemployment	Misuse of technologies	Profound social instability	Energy price shock	Asset bubble
Indonesia	Spread of infectious diseases	Natural catastrophes	Fiscal crises	Asset bubble	Food crises
Iran	Unmanageable inflation	Fiscal crises	Asset bubble	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Inter state conflict
Ireland	Cyber attacks	Fiscal crises	Failure of critical infrastructure	Asset bubble	Failure of urban planning
Israel	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Terrorist attacks	Weapons of mass destruction	Asset bubble
Italy	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of national governance	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Unemployment or underemployment	Profound social instability
Japan	Natural catastrophes	Cyber attacks	Extreme weather events	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises
Jordan	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Fiscal crises	Asset bubble	Water crises
Kazakhstan	Fiscal crises	State collapse or crisis	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Profound social instability	Energy price shock
Kenya	Unemployment or underemployment	Illicit trade	Data fraud or theft	Cyber attacks	Terrorist attacks
South Korea	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Inter state conflict	Cyber attacks	Human made environmental catastrophes
Kuwait	Energy price shock	Spread of infectious diseases	Asset bubble	Fiscal crises	Inter state conflict
Kyrgyzstan	Fiscal crises	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	State collapse or crisis
Lao	Deflation	Unmanageable inflation	Natural catastrophes	Human made environmental catastrophes	Spread of infectious diseases
Latvia	Failure of national governance	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Inter state conflict	Failure of regional and global governance	Unemployment or underemployment
Lebanon	Failure of national governance	State collapse or crisis	Unemployment or underemployment	Unmanageable inflation	Profound social instability
Lesotho	Failure of climate change adaptation	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Water crises	Terrorist attacks	Weapons of mass destruction
Liberia	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of critical infrastructure	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Energy price shock	Critical information infrastructure breakdown
Lithuania	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Asset bubble	Cyber attacks	Inter state conflict
Luxembourg	Asset bubble	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Data fraud or theft	Failure of financial mechanism or institution
Malawi	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Energy price shock	Extreme weather events
Malaysia	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of national governance	Cyber attacks	Misuse of technologies
Mali	Terrorist attacks	Failure of national governance	Illicit trade	Fiscal crises	Energy price shock
Malta	Spread of infectious diseases	Asset bubble	Failure of national governance	Failure of urban planning	Large scale involuntary migration
Mauritania	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of national governance	Energy price shock	Failure of regional and global governance
Mauritius	Extreme weather events	Spread of infectious diseases	Natural catastrophes	Cyber attacks	Asset bubble
Mexico	Failure of national governance	Profound social instability	Unemployment or underemployment	State collapse or crisis	Spread of infectious diseases
Mongolia	Fiscal crises	State collapse or crisis	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of urban planning	Unmanageable inflation
Montenegro	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	State collapse or crisis
Namibia	Unemployment or underemployment	Spread of infectious diseases	Water crises	Data fraud or theft	Failure of urban planning
Nepal	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of national governance	Failure of urban planning	Cyber attacks	Unmanageable inflation
Netherlands	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of climate change adaptation	Asset bubble	Data fraud or theft
New Zealand	Natural catastrophes	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks	Fiscal crises	Failure of climate change adaptation
Nicaragua	Failure of national governance	State collapse or crisis	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment
Nigeria	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of critical infrastructure	Failure of national governance	Energy price shock	Profound social instability
North Macedonia	Large scale involuntary migration	Failure of national governance	Failure of critical infrastructure	Failure of urban planning	Failure of regional and global governance
Oman	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Cyber attacks	Fiscal crises
Pakistan	Terrorist attacks	Water crises	Weapons of mass destruction	Spread of infectious diseases	Unmanageable inflation
Panama	Unemployment or underemployment	Spread of infectious diseases	Water crises	Failure of national governance	Profound social instability
Paraguay	Illicit trade	Unemployment or underemployment	Profound social instability	Failure of national governance	Failure of critical infrastructure
Peru	Failure of national governance	Profound social instability	Natural catastrophes	State collapse or crisis	Large scale involuntary migration
Philippines	Natural catastrophes	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of critical infrastructure	Extreme weather events
Poland	Spread of infectious diseases	Inter state conflict	Fiscal crises	Cyber attacks	Failure of national governance
Portugal	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Unemployment or underemployment	Asset bubble	Cyber attacks
Qatar	Spread of infectious diseases	Asset bubble	Cyber attacks	Natural catastrophes	Energy price shock
Romania	Failure of national governance	Fiscal crises	Spread of infectious diseases	Profound social instability	Large scale involuntary migration
Russia	Inter state conflict	Profound social instability	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Failure of financial mechanism or institution
Rwanda	Unemployment or underemployment	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks	Extreme weather events	Energy price shock
Saudi Arabia	Energy price shock	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks	Deflation	Fiscal crises
Senegal	Unemployment or underemployment	Fiscal crises	Energy price shock	Cyber attacks	Illicit trade
Serbia	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of national governance	Inter state conflict	Human made environmental catastrophes	Failure of regional and global governance
Sierra Leone	Unemployment or underemployment	Unmanageable inflation	Failure of critical infrastructure	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of national governance
Singapore	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Terrorist attacks	Asset bubble	Failure of climate change adaptation
Slovakia	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Profound social instability	Unemployment or underemployment	Asset bubble
Slovenia	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	Cyber attacks	Failure of regional and global governance	Human made environmental catastrophes
South Africa	Unemployment or underemployment	Failure of critical infrastructure	Failure of national governance	Profound social instability	Water crises
Spain	Unemployment or underemployment	Spread of infectious diseases	Asset bubble	Profound social instability	Failure of national governance
Sri Lanka	Failure of national governance	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Unmanageable inflation	Energy price shock
Sweden	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Asset bubble	Large scale involuntary migration	Failure of regional and global governance
Switzerland	Cyber attacks	Large scale involuntary migration	Asset bubble	Inter state conflict	Failure of climate change adaptation
Taiwan	Inter state conflict	Spread of infectious diseases	Extreme weather events	Natural catastrophes	Energy price shock
Tajikistan	Energy price shock	Natural catastrophes	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Unmanageable inflation
Tanzania	Unemployment or underemployment	Cyber attacks	Data fraud or theft	Food crises	Fiscal crises
Thailand	Asset bubble	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Cyber attacks
Trinidad and Tobago	Energy price shock	Failure of national governance	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Fiscal crises
Tunisia	Illicit trade	Profound social instability	Fiscal crises	Spread of infectious diseases	Energy price shock
Turkey	Fiscal crises	Spread of infectious diseases	Unemployment or underemployment	Inter state conflict	Cyber attacks
Uganda	Unemployment or underemployment	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks	Misuse of technologies	Data fraud or theft
Ukraine	Spread of infectious diseases	Fiscal crises	State collapse or crisis	Water crises	Profound social instability
United Arab Emirates	Spread of infectious diseases	Cyber attacks	Misuse of technologies	Fiscal crises	Energy price shock
United Kingdom	Cyber attacks	Fiscal crises	Extreme weather events	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of climate change adaptation
United States of America	Cyber attacks	Spread of infectious diseases	Data fraud or theft	Natural catastrophes	Asset bubble
Uruguay	Unemployment or underemployment	Fiscal crises	Spread of infectious diseases	Failure of critical infrastructure	Unmanageable inflation
Venezuela	Profound social instability	Unmanageable inflation	State collapse or crisis	Food crises	Failure of critical infrastructure
Viet Nam	Spread of infectious diseases	Human made environmental catastrophes	Unemployment or underemployment	Fiscal crises	Cyber attacks
Yemen	State collapse or crisis	Critical information infrastructure breakdown	Inter state conflict	Weapons of mass destruction	Failure of national governance
Zambia	Unemployment or underemployment	Energy price shock	Spread of infectious diseases	Unmanageable inflation	Failure of national governance

GLOBAL AVERAGE

Risks & Sectors

Methodology &

Acknowledgements

The findings presented in this report are based on data from the World Economic Forum’s Executive Opinion Survey.
This is the survey that feeds into the Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report.

Each year it canvasses the views of business leaders from around the world on the state of the business environment where they are based. The Executive Opinion Survey was conducted in 2020 between January and July, and the survey’s risk-related question received 11,860 responses from 127 economies. Informed by the results of quantitative tests and additional qualitative analysis, we discarded data for some economies. This was the case for Algeria, Azerbaijan and Gambia. In addition, this year the Executive Opinion Survey could not be administered in Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Haiti, Jamaica, Madagascar, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Norway, Seychelles or Zimbabwe.

To obtain the regional business perceptions of risk, we weighted economy-level responses by GDP and population. First, we calculated the share of each economy’s GDP and population with respect to their region’s aggregates. When obtaining these aggregates, we considered only those economies for which 2020 survey data was available. Then, we calculated the ratio between these GDP and population shares and the share of each economy’s sample size relative to their corresponding regional sample size. We averaged these ratios to obtain a single weight per economy.

Finally, the regional business perceptions of risk are a simple count of the number of total weighted responses for each risk from the economies comprised in each region. The global business perceptions of risk are a simple average of these regional business perceptions of risk.

The sector perceptions of risk -- agriculture, manufacturing industry, nonmanufacturing industry (mining and quarrying, electricity, gas and water supply, construction), and services -- are a simple count of the number of total responses for each risk globally. These results are not weighted nor divided by region or economy.

Reflecting the fact that the survey dates spanned the different trajectories that COVID-19 followed in each economy, and that national containment measures were implemented at different times, we conducted several quantitative tests to check for timing bias in an economy’s responses. We did not find significant differences between responses received from the same economy before and after containment measures were implemented.

The eight regions we analysed are comprised as follows:

East Asia and the Pacific

Australia(57); Cambodia(63); China(282); Hong Kong SAR, China(116); Indonesia(79); Japan(81); Republic of Korea(98); Lao PDR(70); Malaysia(83); Mongolia(84); New Zealand(45); Philippines(88); Singapore(143); Taiwan, China(81); Thailand(81); Viet Nam(75).

Eurasia

Armenia(63); Azerbaijan(51); Belarus(95); Georgia(81); Kazakhstan(61); Kyrgyzstan(100); Russian Federation(270); Tajikistan(83); Ukraine(92).

Eurpoe

Albania(80); Austria(134); Belgium(49); Bosnia and Herzegovina(77); Bulgaria(97); Croatia(82); Cyprus(64); Czech Republic(94); Denmark(101); Estonia(79); Finland(72); France(70); Germany(89); Greece(82); Hungary(86); Iceland(81); Ireland(40); Italy(60); Latvia(75); Lithuania(82); Luxembourg(43); Malta(54); Montenegro(81); Netherlands(82); North Macedonia(33 ); Poland(201); Portugal(156); Romania(137); Serbia(78); Slovakia(80); Slovenia(94); Spain(97); Sweden(40); Switzerland(85); Turkey(85); United Kingdom(105).

Latin America and the Caribbean

Argentina(89); Barbados(34); Bolivia(52); Brazil(296); Chile(410); Colombia(84); Costa Rica(49); Dominican Republic(48); Ecuador(83); El Salvador(62); Guatemala(84); Honduras(99); Mexico(125); Nicaragua(53); Panama(61); Paraguay(87); Peru(88); Trinidad and Tobago(86); Uruguay(80); Venezuela(51).

Middle East and North Africa

Bahrain(73); Egypt(119); Iran(129); Israel(49); Jordan(74); Kuwait(40); Lebanon(60); Oman(86); Qatar(135); Saudi Arabia(59); Tunisia(89); United Arab Emirates(72); Yemen(73).

North America

Canada(81), United States(255).

South Asia

Bangladesh(55); India(259); Nepal(62); Pakistan(137); Sri Lanka(80).

Sub-Sahran Africa

Angola(162); Benin(91); Botswana(75); Burundi(84); Cameroon(107); Cape Verde(35); Chad(82); Democratic Republic of Congo(75); Cote d'Ivoire(251); Ghana(100); Guinea(88); Kenya(87); Lesotho(100); Liberia(63); Malawi(87); Mali(107); Mauritania(95); Mauritius(73); Namibia(80); Nigeria(67); Rwanda(91); Senegal(74); Sierra Leone(78); South Africa(92); Tanzania(85); Uganda(118); Zambia(79).

The following table contains the 30 global risks that respondents were asked to choose from:

Economic	Environmental	Geopolitical	Societal	Technological
Asset bubble	Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse	Failure of national governance	Failure of urban planning	Critical information infrastructure breakdown
Deflation	Extreme weather events	Failure of regional and global governance	Food crises	Cyber attacks
Energy price shock	Failure of climate-change adaptation	Inter-state conflict	Large-scale involuntary migration	Data fraud or theft
Failure of critical infrastructure	Humanmade environmental catastrophes	State collapse or crisis	Profound social instability	Misuse of technologies
Failure of financial mechanism or institution	Natural catastrophes	Terrorist attacks	Spread of infectious diseases
Fiscal crises		Weapons of mass destruction	Water crises
Illicit trade
Unemployment or underemployment
Unmanageable inflation

About Us

This interactive map was produced by the Global Risks Initiative in collaboration with the World Economic Forum Platform for Shaping the Future of the New Economy and Society, which conducts the Executive Opinion Survey (EOS).

This project is part of a long-standing relationship that underpins the flagship Global Risks Report. The Forum would like to thank Marsh & McLennan, SK Group, and Zurich Insurance Group for their help in developing and disseminating this project. For more information, please contact GlobalRisksReport@weforum.org.

Contributors

Global Risks Initiative

Emilio Granados Franco, Head, Global Risks and Geopolitical Agenda
Melinda Kuritzky, Lead, Global Risks and Geopolitical Agenda
Richard Lukacs, Specialist, Global Risks and Geopolitical Agenda
Marie Sophie Müller, Lead, Global Risks and Geopolitical Agenda

Platform for the New Economy and Society

Roberto Crotti, Insights Lead, Benchmarking Practice
Kusum Kali Pal, Data and Research Analyst, Benchmarking Practice
Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director, Managing Board

Design

Jordynn McKnight, Designer

Web Development

Kodjo Adanledji, Data Science and Visualization Specialist

Editing

Elizabeth Mills, Editor

Media

Aylin Elci, Communications Officer, Media Relations
Maxwell Hall, Broadcast and Live Production Lead, Video Content Production
Yann Zopf, Head of Media, Media Relations

A special thanks to our Partner contributors:

Marsh & McLennan

Missy DeAngelis, Jason Groves, Katarzyna Pazdur, Graeme Riddell, Richard Smith-Bingham, Stephen Szaraz

SK Group

Guillaume Barthe-Dejean, Okkyung Han, Ilbum Kim, Keyjoon Kwon

Zurich Insurance Group

Laura Castellano, Pavel Osipyants, John Scott

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How to use this site

Navigation

Interactive Map

Explore detailed results by economy, risk or category

Risks & Sector

Explore global averages of perceived risks by country and sector.

Overview Table

Explore top five perceived risks by economy.

Methodology & Acknowledgements

This map is based on more than 11,000 survey responses from nearly 126 economies. Find more information on our methodology and acknowledgements here.

Shareables

Find graphics to share on social media channels.

Terms we use.

Executive Opinion Survey. Conducted Explore top five perceived risks by economy.

Global Risk

An uncertain event or condition that, if it occurs, can cause significant negative impact for several economies or sectors within the next 10 years.

Regional Business Perception of Risk

Weighted economy-level responses by GDP and population. See Methodology for more detail.

Global Business Perception of Risk

Simple average of regional business perceptions of risks.

How to use this site

Navigation

Interactive Map

Risks & Sector

Overview Table

Methodology & Acknowledgements

Shareables

Terms we use

Executive Opinion Survey

Global Risk

Regional Business Perception of Risk

Global Business Perception of Risk

Overview

PERCEIVED RISKS BY ECONOMY

Albania

Spread of infectious diseases

Fiscal crises

Failure of financial mechanism or institution

Natural catastrophes

Unmanageable inflation

Angola

Failure of national governance

Unemployment or underemployment

Unmanageable inflation

Profound social instability

Spread of infectious diseases

Argentina

Unmanageable inflation

Profound social instability

Failure of national governance

Fiscal crises

Unemployment or underemployment

Armenia

Inter state conflict

Spread of infectious diseases

Unemployment or underemployment

Large scale involuntary migration

Failure of critical infrastructure

Australia

Cyber attacks

Spread of infectious diseases

Fiscal crises

Energy price shock

Extreme weather events

Austria

Cyber attacks

Spread of infectious diseases

Large scale involuntary migration

Extreme weather events

Asset bubble

Azerbaijan

Spread of infectious diseases

Inter state conflict

Fiscal crises

Biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse

Natural catastrophes

Bahrain

Energy price shock

Fiscal crises

Spread of infectious diseases

Unemployment or underemployment

Cyber attacks

Bangladesh

Failure of national governance

Failure of financial mechanism or institution

Unemployment or underemployment

Failure of urban planning

Failure of climate change adaptation

Barbados

Extreme weather events

Natural catastrophes

Spread of infectious diseases

Water crises

Fiscal crises

Belarus

Fiscal crises

Spread of infectious diseases

Energy price shock

State collapse or crisis

Unemployment or underemployment