Permanent migration to OECD countries declined by 1.6% in 2025, falling for the second consecutive year, but remained historically high at 6.1 million new permanent immigrants, 12.5% above its 2019 ...

Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution are individually pressing, yet their interconnected nature calls for more coherent and integrated policy responses. However, knowledge of whether ...

Government support to agriculture increased by USD 121 billion – nearly 15% – between 2023 and 2025, reaching a record high. Much of this support was focused on short-term responses to successive ...

AI adoption is accelerating across OECD economies, but significant gaps among businesses and generations risk limiting the benefits of digital transformation. Only around 12% of firms combine the use ...

African economies faced a challenging external environment in 2025 and early 2026, marked by heightened global uncertainty, shifts in trade policies and volatility in energy markets. The OECD Africa ...

Financing is essential to expanding women’s economic opportunities and entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Yet women entrepreneurs continue to face significant barriers to ...

The ocean economy reached an unprecedented USD 3.5 trillion in 2025, underpinning prosperity, jobs and development opportunities across the world. At the same time, increasing pressures on marine ...

From rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) compute that are reshaping the technology frontier to screen-time dynamics that are affecting the academic performance of children, digital ...

Supporting greater integration of developing economies, including least-developed countries (LDCs), into global trade has been a long-standing objective of the international community. Since the ...

Belgium’s economy has been resilient to the recent energy shock, but several challenges lie ahead: weakened growth potential, high public debt, population ageing, and climate change. Economic growth ...

Europe creates innovative start-ups but produces far fewer unicorns than the United States. New OECD analysis of over 190 000 innovative start-ups suggests the biggest barriers emerge during scaling, ...

Asset-backed pensions have expanded substantially over the past two decades, complementing traditional pay-as-you-go schemes and strengthening the resilience of retirement systems, but governments ...