Figures

Book Cover: The Next Crisis
What we think about the future
 

Figure 1.1: Frequency of use of the term ‘crisis’ in the English language, 1800–2019

Figure 1.2: What the rest of the world is most concerned about, 2022–24

Figure 2.1: How economists tend to report global trends in poverty over time

Figure 2.2: The reported rise & fall in extreme poverty in the world: an economist’s view

Figure 3.1: ‘Tick up to three issues’ – what people care most about, UK, 2011–24

Figure 3.2: How size of birth cohort influences immigration and emigration

Figure 4.1: All deaths due to war in the world, by state, 1989–2022

Figure 4.2: Share of wealth for richest 1% in four countries, 1895 Onwards

Figure 5.1: How much more likely people are to die in the US, by age, 2020s

Figure 5.2: How the US compares in terms of life expectancy trends over time

Figure 5.3: Life expectancy in US and England, by household income, in 2022

Figure 5.4: Adults who believe a single secretive group rules the world, 2021 (%)

Figure 6.1: Global emissions of carbon dioxide by income group, In 2019 (tonnes)

Figure 6.2: Location of people who believe climate change is a hoax, 2020

Figure 7.1: Cataclysmic scenarios for human population, 2020–2100

Figure 7.2: More cataclysmic scenarios for human population, 2020–2100

Figure 7.3: Going hungry is caused by poverty and inequality – not by droughts

Figure 8.1: Frequency of mentions of inequality, American Sociological Review, 1936–2019

Figure 8.2: World Bank’s 2020 ‘nowcast’ for global poverty rates, 2015–22

Figure 8.3: Banner of East Bradford Socialist Sunday School, Fred Liles, 1914