Population stability in OECD countries, growth elsewhere
More people live in urban environments
Increasing and converging migration rates
Increasing numbers of “foreign-born”
Growing production and consumption of electricity
Growing carbon dioxide emissions
The widening gap between richer and poorer regions
Child mortality going down but differences remain wide
Growing importance of international trade
Leading economies investing more globally
China and India catching up
Thirty years of economic expansion
From “bottom-heavy” to “top-heavy” age structures
The “old-age dependency ratio” set to double by 2050
Rising health expenditure
Education spending: No clear trend
Income inequality tending to grow
Income gaps widening
Relative poverty increasing
Absolute poverty going down
Membership of voluntary organisations – wide variation, no clear trends
Increasing engagement with online communities
Generally high levels of life satisfaction
Suicide rates dropping
Years in employment going down for men
Years in employment going up for women
Modest fall in numbers in the same job for more than ten years
Diverse trends for part-time work
More investment in research and development
Increasing numbers of people working in R&D
Many more people with higher education
Rapidly increasing numbers of international students
More women working
Women overtaking men in education
Fewer married couples
More single-parent families
Birth rates well down in the 1960s but creeping up after 2000
Starting parenthood later
Childhood obesity going up
Consumption of ADHD medication steeply rising
Rates of childhood poverty tending to rise
Educational attainment becoming less dependent on parental education
“Children should work hard”
“Children should have imagination”
Growing access to home computers
Increasing availability of computers at school
Computer use at home
Computer use at school
Growing number of websites worldwide
Rapid growth of Wikipedia
Growing access to the Internet, especially in households with children
Towards universal Internet use
Towards universal use of mobile phones
Expanding use of mobile broadband