How did our predictions stack up in 2024?

By Tom Standage, Editor, The World Ahead 2025

What a year. One American presidential candidate bowed out a few months before the election; another was almost assassinated, twice. Ukraine launched a counter-invasion into Russian territory. Iran’s president died in a helicopter crash. We anticipated none of these extraordinary events. And we expected America’s election to be a coin-toss—and failed to foresee the scale of Donald Trump’s decisive victory.