Economy

Sentiment is up in Latin America and Europe, down in North America according to the Ipsos Global Consumer Confidence Index for January 2025.

However, people expect climate change to worsen in 2024, the Ipsos Predictions survey finds

The latest wave of the Ipsos Global Inflation Monitor finds people across 33 countries will have more money to spend in the next year as red-hot prices cool off slightly in many places; and almost half of the global public are seeing red over products getting smaller but prices staying the same.

People continue to recognise infrastructure’s ‘double dividend’ but see substantial room for improvement.

Inflation remains the number one concern in What Worries the World for the 18th month in a row.

Inflation has now been the top global concern in our What Worries the World survey for the last 17 months. However, worry about rising prices has declined for three months in a row, having dropped 3pp from June.

Inflation has now been the top global concern in our What Worries the World survey for the last 16 months.

Sentiment is significantly down in Great Britain, France, Hungary, and the Netherlands.

Inflation has now been the top global concern in our What Worries the World survey for the last 15 months.