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The Global Shapers Community is the World 3.32
Economic Forum’s network of young people Economic Geopolitical Technological
3.5 driving dialogue, action and change. Risks Risks Risks
Number and strength
Environmental Societal of connections
Adverse
technological Risks Risks (“weighted degree”)
advances
Note: We applied the same completion thresholds to survey responses from the
Impact We received 236 responses for Part 1 “The World in 2020” and 190 for Part 2
3.0 Global Shapers as to the multi-stakeholder sample (see Appendix B: Global Risks
Perception Survey and Methodology).
“Assessment of Global Risks”. The data for Part 3 “Global Risk Interconnections”
was not used.
Note: Survey respondents were asked to select up to six pairs of global risks they believe to be most
Source: World Economic Forum Global Risks
interconnected. See Appendix B of the full report for more details. To ensure legibility, the names of the
Perception Survey 2019–2020.
See Appendix B for more details. To ensure legibility, the names of the global risks are abbreviated; see Appendix A for
Likelihood 3.0 3.5 4.0 Source: World Economic Forum Global Risks Note: Survey respondents were asked to select up to six pairs of global risks they believe to be most interconnected.
2.5
Perception Survey 2019–2020.
global risks are abbreviated; see Appendix A for the full name and description.
full names and descriptions.

