Verisk Maplecroft: Political Risk Outlook

The world has become less predictable. Traditional alliances and geopolitical battlegrounds are evolving as a wave of strategic competition drives uncertainty for global business. From geopolitics and conflict to elections and trade, our data shows that the international system is heating up and creating a new risk baseline for multinational organisations across the world.

The current dynamics demand innovative approaches to understanding where risks lie and how they might develop in the future. In the latest edition of our Political Risk Outlook, we draw on our unique portfolio of country risk data, alongside analysis from our team of experts, to strip back the complexity of some of the key global issues driving the risk environment for international business.

Shifts over the past three years in the 64 risk indices that make up our Political Risk Data provide important signals that companies and investors need to pay close attention to as we enter 2025. Our Political Risk Index identifies 99 countries that have witnessed a significant rise in risk. Digging deeper, we also see similar trends emerge across a range of other factors. As the chart below shows, these include issues as wide-ranging as civil unrest, conflict, challenges to government authority, ease of trade, interstate tensions, resource nationalism and sanctions.

Read Faultlines: The political risk 'signals' to watch in 2025 here.

Read the Full Report here.