The ‘Future Possibilities Index’ - FPI 2024 evaluated the potential of countries to harness global transformations for future development across key sectors. It focused on six transformational trends and a country's readiness and capacity to leverage them. The six global trends are:

1. Exabyte economy: tech surge
2. Wellbeing economy
3. Net zero economy
4. Circular economy
5. BioGrowth economy
6. Experience economy: beyond the tangible.

It focused on the following three key areas of readiness:

1. government strategy and policy
2. industry strength
3. core capacity.

The index covers 70 countries, which account for more than 90 per cent of the global GDP. 

In the first edition of the FPI report – 2024, the UAE was ranked first in the Arab world, and first globally in 20 FPI indicators, including:

• government’s responsiveness to change
• development of future policies
• launching proactive government initiatives
• attractiveness and stability of global talent
• number of competitive working-age talent
• future digital software developers
• number of international tertiary education students
• size of the UAE market with its consumer spending potential
• ICT connectivity
• mobile broadband subscriptions and speed
• number of internet users.

Read news coverage on the website of Ministry of Cabinet Affairs.

Read the report about ‘Future Possibilities Index’- 2024 (PDF, 65 MB).