Regional Analysis

Focus on the Regions
25 November 2019
North America remains the most prosperous region, although the gap with Western Europe has narrowed and the two regions now exhibit similar levels of prosperity. The prosperit...
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25 November 2019
North America is the most prosperous region, although its prosperity has improved only marginally over the last decade.
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25 November 2019
Western Europe has experienced a slow and steady increase in prosperity over the past decade, the reasons for which are set out below.
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25 November 2019
Eastern Europe is the second most improved region over the past decade, yet has improved less than the global average.
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25 November 2019
Prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean has been rising since 2009, but it has stagnated since 2014, resulting in the region’s prosp...
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25 November 2019
The Asia-Pacific region is the most-improved region over the last decade. Although it is still the 5th-ranked region, it has overtaken the g...
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