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Geoeconomic confrontation volition beryllium the single-biggest hazard globally successful 2026, overtaking State-based equipped conflicts and utmost upwind events, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2026. In India, however, the apical hazard is cybersecurity, followed by income and wealthiness inequality.
According to the report, for India, portion cybersecurity and income and wealthiness inequality were the apical 2 risks, these were followed by “insufficient nationalist services and societal protections, economical downturn and State-based equipped conflict”.
“In 2026, geopolitical and geoeconomic risks predominate the [global] hazard outlook, with adjacent to one-third of Global Risks Perception Survey respondents selecting either geoeconomic confrontation (18% of respondents) oregon State-based equipped struggle (14% of respondents) arsenic the apical hazard for 2026,” the study said.
It further noted that geoeconomic confrontation has accrued 2 positions compared to past twelvemonth and is present the fig 1 risk, with State-based equipped struggle falling to the 2nd position.
The study said that determination has been an uptick successful respondents’ concerns implicit technological risks, with misinformation and disinformation coming successful astatine fig 5 (7% of respondents), and 2 caller entrants successful the apical 10 risks: adverse outcomes of AI technologies astatine the eighth fertile and cyber insecurity astatine fertile 9.
The Global Risks Perception Survey is based connected responses from implicit 1,300 “global leaders and experts” from academia, business, government, planetary organisations and civilian society, arsenic good arsenic the Global Risks Report Advisory Board, the Global Future Councils Network and the World Economic Forum’s C-suite members.
