Ungated Post | 24 Jul 2020
Chart of the week: Our forecast for world trade growth
Innes McFee
Managing Director of Macro and Investor Services
Our baseline forecast looks for world trade to grow by just 2.6% per year from 2020-2030, with trade volumes in 2030 around 5% lower than we expected in January. In addition, we expect the next decade to see the lowest ratio of trade growth to GDP growth in any decade since 1950.
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