The United States may have the largest national economy, but Americans constitute an increasingly smaller part of the larger world.
With a population of 340 million, the U.S. is just 4.2% of the world. And with President Trump seeking mass deportations amid a declining birth rate, that percentage is likely to fall over the next two years.
Thus most of the future news developments in the world are likely to occur outside of the U.S. and even outside the most developed parts of the world.
The futurist Herman Kahn was prescient about this in 1976. His book The Next 200 Years argued that human society was poised to move from a state of scarcity to global affluence with universally higher standards of living.
The daily WorldWire Newsletter is an attempt to shed light on news developments across our rapidly growing world society.
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