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Facebook, with more than  1.8 billion monthly active users , remains the world’s most popular social network, by far. If the  social media giant were a country , it would be much bigger than China. But although it's in several major markets – including China – and a few medium-sized and smaller ones too, Facebook doesn’t dominate the social landscape. Image: Vincenzo Cosenza Social media strategist Vincenzo Cosenza has been charting the most popular social networks by country since 2009. His  January 2017 World Map of Social Networks , based on traffic data from Alexa and SimilarWeb, reveals that Facebook is still the leader in 119 out of 149 countries analysed. By comparison, Consenza’s  January 2016 map  showed Facebook as the No 1 social network in 129 out of 137 countries. This drop can be attributed to a number of trends. Since early 2016, LinkedIn has moved into pole position in several African countries, while Facebook-owned Insta...

Five years ago, during the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, we asked executives of the world’s largest energy companies, policy-makers and thought leaders from across the energy value chain: to what extent do you expect global energy systems to change over the next 10 years? An overwhelming 90% expressed the belief that significant change would occur around the world, and nearly one-third predicted a radical shift in the way energy is sourced, transformed and consumed. Reflecting on this today, the world is inarguable in the grips of an ongoing energy transition which is gathering momentum as unprecedented structural changes take place in global energy systems. The  Global Energy Architecture Performance Index Report 2017  shows that a selection of countries are establishing themselves as masters of the energy transition, while others are gearing up to challenge them. Some of these are highlighted in the figure below. Image: World Economic Forum a...