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Completion thresholds

We received 1,047 total responses to the GRPS to – Part 2 “Assessment of Global Risks”:
which we applied an overall standard deviation check, as The answers from the 718 respondents who
well as specific completion thresholds for each section assessed the impact and likelihood of at least
of the survey: one risk were used to compute the results (leaving
the question entirely blank was not considered a
– Overall: nine responses yielded a standard valid answer).
deviation of zero in the increase/decrease scores
for Part 1 of the survey, as well as the likelihood – Part 3 “Global Risk Interconnections”: The
and impact scores for Part 2. These responses answers from the 628 respondents who selected
were not included in the survey results. at least one valid pair of risks were used to
compute the results.
– Part 1 “The World in 2020”: The answers from
the 777 respondents who assessed at least four Figure B.1 presents some key descriptive statistics and
of the risks listed in this question were used to information about the profiles of the respondents.
compute the results.

F I G URE B .1
Survey Sample Composition

Gender Expertise Organization type International
Environment organizations
9.10% 10.05%
Other
0.39% Technology
Economics
25.07% 13.06% Business
Male 37.73%
68.44% Academia
Female Other 20.63%
31.17% Society 22.16% NGO
11.36%
13.06%
Geopolitics Other
11.87% 5.35%
Government
14.88%

Age distribution Region
29.08% 26.69%
22.97% North America Europe Eurasia
44.42%
2.21%
14.21% 16.88%
2.66% 4.38% East Asia
and the Pacific
8.96%
Middle East and
North Africa
<30 30–39 40–49 50–59 60–69 >70 Latin America 3.90%
and the Caribbean
8.83% Sub-Saharan Africa
6.10% South Asia
8.70%
Source: Global Risks Perception Survey 2019-2020.

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