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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

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Welcome to Front Page, where we break down Gallup's latest insights on our constantly evolving world. Here are the five insights you shouldn't miss this week:

1. Back to School!

Bar Chart: Top and bottom countries where children have opportunities to learn in 2022.

Parents rejoice, students shudder … it's that time of year again when students in many parts of the world head back to school. Here are the top five and bottom five countries where people say children in their country have the opportunity to learn and grow every day.
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2. When Disaster Strikes

Bar Chart: Comparing the rate of climate disasters during the past five years worldwide and in the U.S.

From fires in Hawaii, Canada and Europe to tropical storms in California, environmental disasters have been in the headlines lately. Here's how the U.S. compares to the world in terms of experiencing natural disasters.
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3. How Safe Is Your City?

Bar Chart: Rating the safety of 16 large U.S. cities in 2023.

At Gallup, we tend to focus our coverage of the U.S. on the national level, but so much is changing with city life that we decided to update Americans' ratings of the safety of 16 large U.S. cities. The contrast in perceptions is rather dramatic, ranging from three-quarters seeing Dallas as safe to one-quarter saying the same about Detroit.
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4. AI Coming for Your Job

Bar Chart: Long- and short-term impact of AI replacing jobs.

With all the chatter about AI and job elimination, we went to the source — CHROs, measuring when they think the budding technology will seriously affect jobs in their organization. The verdict: We're safe for now, but not for long.
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5. Zimbabwe's Economic Pain

Line Chart: 72% of Zimbabweans said in 2022 their local economy is getting worse.

Last week, Zimbabweans voted in a pivotal election for the future trajectory of the 15 million-strong country once known as "the Jewel of Africa." Economic woes were featured heavily in the campaign, and here is why: Today, over seven in 10 Zimbabweans say the economy in the city or area where they live is getting worse.
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Bonus Chart! Asian Economies and China's Job Crisis

Table: Ranking global regions by evaluations of their own economic strength.

As nations navigate an ever more tumultuous economy, with inflation concerns in the West, hunger concerns in the Global South, and a labor crisis in China, here is our latest on how different world regions evaluate their own economies.
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And that's Front Page!

Mohamed Younis
Editor-in-Chief
Gallup

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