Table C.1 presents the list of 34 risks that were incorporated into the World Economic Forum’s 2024 Executive Opinion Survey (EOS), which was administered between April and August 2024. The risks are comparable to those in the GRPS 2024-2025 but are applied at a more granular level to reflect the possible short-term and country-level manifestations of global risks.
To ensure legibility, the names of some of the global risks have been abbreviated throughout this report. The portion of the full name used in the abbreviation is in bold.
Over 11,000 respondents were presented with the following question: “Which five risks are the most likely to pose the biggest threat to your country in the next two years?” and were asked to select these from the list of 34 risks in Table C.1.
“Risk 1” indicates the most frequently selected risk in each economy. Tied risks are presented in alphabetical order, with the tie indicated by numbering.
To analyse the results of country or economy groups (such as the G20 or EU), country-level results are aggregated by taking a simple average of the ranking of the risk (from 1-34) by the countries or economies included in the group.