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Demographics
The world's biggest cities moved east — and south
50 years of change in the world's megacities: from 8 in 1975 to 33 in 2025, most of them now in Asia.
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Demographics
Where did all the children go?
Children made up 37.4% of the world in 1960. In 2025, they make up 24.4%. Population ages 0–14 as a share of total population, selected countries.
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Economy
What got more expensive — and what got cheaper since 2000
Change in selected U.S. Consumer Price Index categories, using annual averages for 2000 and 2025.
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Economy
America got richer. The median income didn’t keep up.
Real economic output per person rose much faster than the median person’s inflation-adjusted money income over the last 50 years.
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Technology
19 years of iPhone updates
How long every iPhone generation has been supported, from the original iPhone to the iPhone 17.
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Society
The path to adulthood looks very different now
The most common combinations of four traditional milestones among U.S. adults ages 25–34, 1975 vs. 2024.
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Economy
The U.S. job market looks like it went back to normal. It didn’t.
Six years on, total online job postings sit just 2% above their February 2020 level — but the mix has been turned inside out. Demand for screen-based work has collapsed, while hands-on, care and infrastructure work has boomed.
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