Reports & Data

Interested in trends and developments? Get started with these reports and data sets.

Megatrends and drivers reports

• CSIRO’s Our Future World - Global mega trends impacting the way we live over coming decades

• The UK’s Ministry of Defence Global Strategic Trends: The future starts today report (6th Edition)

Scenarios & projections

• Shell’s Sky scenario. The Sky scenario illustrates a technically possible, but challenging pathway for society to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement

• International Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 degrees

• Imperial College London’s What might the world look like in 2050?

• The OECD’s Global Scenarios 2035: Exploring Implications for the Future of Global Collaboration and the OECD

• Re-programming mobility. The digital transformation of transportation in the US

• Transport futures from the NZ Ministry of Transport

• IPCC’s Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change report

• The Ministry for the Environment’s Aotearoa New Zealand Climate change projection guidance

• The Ministry for the Environment’s Climate change projections for New Zealand

Data sets

• Gapminder - basic global facts and trends

• Our World in Data - data visualisations

• The Atlas of economic complexity - explore global trade dynamics over time

• The World Bank Open Data - global development data

• New Zealand’s environmental data series

• The Ministry for the Environment’s & Stats NZ’s Environment Aotearoa 2022 report

• The NZ Treasury’s Trends in wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2000-2020

• New Zealand’s regional economic activity web tool

• Figure’s charts of New Zealand data