Trend · rank 182 of 250

Organised crime & illicit economies

Transnational criminal networks are expanding trafficking, fraud and illicit markets across borders and penetrating institutions, weakening national control and financing violence where enforcement and legitimate economic alternatives fail to keep pace.

National SecurityConflict & securityconflictinstitutions

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass unchanged. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
182of 250
Sensitivity
5.0rank 208
Breadth
0of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
18.9rank 209
Eigenvector
8.8
Betweenness
22.1
Links
8trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
14.8

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
82
Over a year
−11%Steady
Over three years
−25%
Peak
22524 Dec 2023
Sources
Bothagreement -0.49
Coverage
19languages · 56 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 (19 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English52%101−6%
Spanish11%96−11%
Russian6%108−0%
German4%111+12%
Japanese4%95−1%
French4%104−9%
Chinese3%99−6%
Italian3%102+2%
Persian2%124+26%
Arabic2%103−18%
Portuguese2%89−29%
Polish2%107−6%
Turkish2%114+0%
Indonesian1%89−7%
Vietnamese1%137+35%
Dutch1%107−8%
Hebrew1%130+19%
Ukrainian0%125+9%
Swedish0%97−33%

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.

Nigeria

Jamaica

United States

South Africa

Canada

Philippines

Lithuania

Singapore

Ireland

China

Australia

United Arab Emirates

100

80

62

54

51

47

44

41

37

36

35

33

The 12 highest of 56 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 English86+23%−12%−24%
EuropeGoogle in 9 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish103+13%−3%−2%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 10 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian104+32%+3%−5%
South AsiaGoogle in 1 country111+27%+7%+59%
Gulf and Middle EastGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew110+15%−8%+41%
AfricaGoogle in 3 countries68−9%−20%−47%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 6 countries + Wikipedia in Spanish, Portuguese98+8%−16%+2%
Russia and EurasiaWikipedia in Russian, Ukrainian112+6%+2%+20%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
ArgentinaGoogle95+56%−24%+17%
AustraliaGoogle94+61%−6%−33%
BrazilGoogle + Wikipedia in Portuguese97−18%−22%+13%
CanadaGoogle78+34%−24%−42%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French141+17%+40%+48%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German106+35%+1%+5%
IndiaGoogle111+27%+7%+59%
IndonesiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Indonesian78−14%−20%−33%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian91+7%−14%−20%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese90+19%−12%−5%
South KoreaGoogle82+89%−51%+3%
MexicoGoogle87+10%−14%−22%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian108+6%0%+12%
South AfricaGoogle70+3%−33%−37%
TürkiyeGoogle + Wikipedia in Turkish103+11%−13%+11%
United KingdomGoogle65+11%−34%−62%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English85+25%−11%−26%

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
2 · LowA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
2 · LowA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
1 · Very lowA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
1 · Very lowA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
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 relatedTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
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 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 relatedCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
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 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
5 · Very highState fragility & intrastate violenceConflict & security183
4 · HighNuclear arsenal growth & proliferationConflict & security126
3 · ModerateCorruption & state captureState capacity & governance5
3 · ModerateIllicit finance & beneficial ownershipState capacity & governance20
3 · ModeratePrivate military & proxy forcesConflict & security142
3 · ModeratePersistent armed conflictConflict & security169
3 · ModerateArms control erosionConflict & security174
3 · ModerateTerrorism & violent extremismConflict & security240