Trend · rank 241 of 250

Heat & pollution health burden

Rising heat exposure, persistent air pollution and accumulating chemical contaminants are increasing illness and reducing safe working hours, making national productivity more dependent on protection, monitoring and prevention.

Human CapitalPeople, health & workclimatediseasework skillshealth systems

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass, where it was Pollution & contaminants; takes in Heat stress & labour productivity. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
241of 250
Sensitivity
5.8rank 197
Breadth
0of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
5.6rank 245
Eigenvector
0.0
Betweenness
0.0
Links
1trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
6.1

Attention over three years

How much this trend is read about on Wikipedia and searched for on Google, week by week, set against the typical trend in the list so that what moves every trend at once is taken out. 100 is this trend's own three-year average. The score measures public attention, which is not the same as the strength of the force: a trend can deepen unnoticed, and a news event can lift attention for a fortnight.

Now
112
Over a year
+13%Rising
Over three years
−18%
Peak
28512 Jul 2026
Sources
Bothagreement 0.58
Coverage
24languages · 57 nations

Trailing 4-week average. 100 is this trend’s three-year average.

By language

Wikipedia reading in each language edition where the trend’s pages are read enough to measure (24 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English40%115−5%
French11%100−20%
German8%132+27%
Spanish5%96−1%
Russian4%102−19%
Japanese4%110−17%
Italian4%158+116%
Chinese4%86−15%
Arabic3%122+4%
Persian3%36−24%
Hindi2%65+70%
Dutch2%141+33%
Bengali2%57−3%
Korean1%114−17%
Polish1%101+3%
Vietnamese1%72+4%
Turkish1%71+75%
Malay1%87+11%
Ukrainian1%93+37%
Portuguese1%88+5%
Swedish1%131−5%
Thai0%102+30%
Hebrew0%95+2%
Afrikaans0%35−77%

By country

Google search interest over the three years, as a share of each country’s searching. 100 is the nation where interest is highest. The search terms are English, which favours countries that search in English.

Canada

United States

Singapore

Netherlands

Nepal

Ghana

China

India

Australia

Belgium

Malaysia

Ireland

100

78

70

65

55

53

49

49

46

45

45

44

The 12 highest of 57 nations with a reading.

By region and G20 member

Attention to this trend inside each place, from Google searches made in its countries and Wikipedia reading in the languages mostly read there, averaged where both exist. Each line compares the trend with its own past in that place; the lines do not compare places.

Regions

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
North AmericaGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in English169+72%+29%+122%
EuropeGoogle in 9 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish228+40%+109%+270%
ChinaGoogle in 1 country106+15%+23%−6%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 11 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Malay122+42%+28%+18%
South AsiaGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali65−26%−6%−43%
Gulf and Middle EastGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew140+42%+80%+7%
AfricaGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Afrikaans90+71%−18%−38%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Spanish, Portuguese106−6%+60%−24%
Russia and EurasiaGoogle in 3 countries + Wikipedia in Russian, Ukrainian119+12%−21%+62%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
ArgentinaGoogle103−22%+116%+3%
AustraliaGoogle83+6%−12%−20%
BrazilGoogle + Wikipedia in Portuguese87+14%+63%−67%
CanadaGoogle299+618%+26%+611%
ChinaGoogle106+15%+23%−6%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French242+18%+94%+633%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German194+11%+69%+240%
IndiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali57−35%−29%−54%
IndonesiaGoogle125+41%+55%−3%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian413+157%+702%+614%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese96+25%−10%+21%
South KoreaGoogle + Wikipedia in Korean176+88%+38%+168%
MexicoGoogle113−34%+130%+58%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian102−15%−19%+13%
Saudi ArabiaGoogle112−3%+57%+4%
South AfricaGoogle133+41%+26%+16%
TürkiyeGoogle + Wikipedia in Turkish88−6%+17%−12%
United KingdomGoogle185+27%+108%+136%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English156+54%+37%+90%

Relation to each scenario

A trend relates to a scenario when it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each score is the median of three scores given separately by the members of the model panel.

RelationScenarioFamily
3 · ModerateCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedCritical trade divides into rival blocs S01Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets S02Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA regional war closes a globally important sea route S03Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedHybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout S04Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedAn AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement S08Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust S09Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity S10Health
0 · Not relatedA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers S13 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step S17 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedAffordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness S19 ↗Health
0 · Not relatedA live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence S20 ↗Health

Similarity = 0.3 × shared tags (Jaccard) + 0.3 × likeness of scenario profiles (cosine) + 0.3 × likeness of names and descriptions (TF-IDF cosine) + 0.1 if in the same capability domain, cut into seven levels at 0.12, 0.22, 0.33, 0.45, 0.58, 0.72. Shown at Moderate and above.

SimilarityTrendThemeRank
3 · ModerateMental health demand growthPeople, health & work127