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According to estimates from Statista's Market Insights, the global industrial robotics market is set to reach sales of $10.2 billion in 2025. The two largest segments this year will be robots for the automotive industry (30 percent of sales) and robots for the electronics industry (27 percent of sales). According to analyst forecasts, the industrial robotics market is set to grow at a CAGR of 2.7 percent over the period 2025-2029, largely driven by demand in China, which accounts for the bulk of the sector's revenues. Among the giants of industrial robotics, Japanese and northern European companies are strongly represented. As the following chart shows, the two biggest companies in 2023 were the Swiss-Swedish group ABB (13 percent) and the Japanese firm Epson (13 percent). Other significant players include Japanese companies Fanuc (11 percent), Kawasaki (8 percent), Yaskawa (8 percent) and Denso (4 percent), as well as Italian KUKA (6 percent), Danish Universal Robots (4 percent) and Germany’s Comau.

Singapore has the most powerful passport in the world, with its citizens able to visit 193 countries and territories without a prior visa, according to the Henley Passport Index. Japan and South Korea come in second place, with its citizens able to visit 190 countries, followed by EU countries Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Denmark and Spain in joint third, with access to 189 countries. Even though the United States is a little further down the list, coming in 10th place, it still yields considerable power, enabling citizens to enter 182 countries without major restrictions. It’s a level of freedom also enjoyed by passport holders in Lithuania and Iceland. At the other end of the scale, the situation is very different. For passport holders in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, for example, travel is much more restrictive. The Afghan passport wields the least power of the ranking, with just 25 destinations permissible visa-free. The situation in Syria and Iraq isn’t much better, at 27 and 30 destinations, respectively. The Henley Passport Index draws from data from the International Air Transport Authority (IATA), including 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations.

Reddit, Inc. has emerged as the primary source of AI-generated online content, with large language models (LLMs) citing it in 40 percent of instances. This figure surpasses that of Google, YouTube, and Wikipedia. LLMs were granted unparalleled access to the platform's extensive library of user-driven discussions by the 60 million USD API deal with Google in 2024. As of Q1 2025, the platform had accumulated 108 million global daily active users.   The surge in AI-generated content is reshaping how people search for information online. AI-driven content now powers discovery and engagement, shaping answers provided by chatbots and search engines across. As generative AI continues to transform search, marketing, and media consumption, users and businesses must adapt to a rapidly evolving landscape where authenticity, content quality, and data privacy are critical concerns. More than ever, Reddit is much beyond just a forum, but a vital channel for achieving visibility in an AI-driven world.   For more insights, don't miss Statista's research expert Tiago Bianchi new report on AI and online traffic and the most recent update on AI-generated online content: https://lnkd.in/eqFttr7M    #AITransformation #AITrends #Reddit #LLMs

Total bilateral trade with Russia, meaning export to plus imports from the country, stood at comparable levels for the European Union and India in 2024. However, EU trade with Russia decreased to around a quarter of its original size after the invasion of Ukraine. Meanwhile, Indian trade with Russia moved in the opposite direction, more than quintupling after 2021 as India bought up cheap Russian oil that was shunned in the world markets. Against this backdrop, India's foreign ministry has decried unequal treatment considering U.S. trade and tariff policy. While the European Union has made a trade deal lowering tariffs on its goods to 15 percent (at the cost of making some big concessions), India is still without an agreemement, is facing a general tariff rate of 25 percent starting by the end of this week and has now been repeatedly threatened by the U.S. with additional tariffs of up to 100 percent due to its large purchases of Russian oil. U.S. President Donald Trump said in a social media post Monday that an announcement on the matter would be taking place Friday. While India has repeatedly stressed its non-alliance and said it is only putting the interest of its citizens first by taking advantage of good world market prices, the U.S. and other Western nations have accused the country of having become a significant supplier of funds without which the Russian invasion of Ukraine could not carry on as it has. However, critics also say that the European Union has not done enough to reduce its remaining dependency on Russian imports, which are also mainly in the fossil fuel sector, and that claims that there are no alternatives for the bloc have repeatedly been disproven. The EU said it would end all Russian gas imports by the end of 2027.

Since the advent of online shopping, receiving parcels has become a commonplace experience and frequently also a headache as packages pile up on doorsteps, in apartment buildings, workplaces and post offices. Statista Consumer Insights asked respondents in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany how the have been receiving their parcels in the past 12 months and found out that being handed a package at the front door is still the most common scenario in these countries. However, Brits and Germans are also likely to have picked up a parcel at their neighbors if they weren't home on delivery day. Americans on the other hand are more likely to have a mail room in their building where they can pick up parcels. In Germany, redirecting parcels to an automated station is already more common. 33 percent of respondents said they had used this option recently compared to only 11 percent in the United States and 17 percent in the United Kingdom. While China was not included, a 2021 survey showed that even then more than half of respondents in the country had used parcel stations in the past 12 months. Having a shipment sent to a post office or parcel shop was also a common way to go in all three countries, with between 17 percent and 26 percent of respondents having done this in the past 12 months before the survey.

The United Nations has initiated several treaties in order to ban or restrict the use of nuclear weapons around the world. The following infographic illustrates some of the differences between two of these: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The NPT (opened for signature in 1968 and entered into force in 1970) focuses on limiting nuclear weapon stockpiles. It has been ratified by 191 states, including five of the nine nuclear-weapon states: the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, France and China. Under the treaty, the non-nuclear-weapon states agree that they will not build or own nuclear weapons, while the nuclear powers agree to pursue global disarmament. At the same time, state parties are allowed to cooperate on peaceful uses of nuclear technology. Several countries remain outside of the NPT, including South Sudan, India, Israel and Pakistan. The latter three are all nuclear powers and in order to be able to join the treaty would need to dismantle their nuclear weapons and place the materials under international safeguards. Although North Korea is included in the 191 ratified states, having joined in 1985, it is no longer a part of the agreement, having announced its withdrawal in 2003. The TPNW (adopted in 2017), however, asks all member states to pledge to not “develop, test, produce, manufacture, otherwise acquire, possess or stockpile nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices” - i.e. to stop the possession and use of nuclear weapons altogether. It has 93 signatories, 73 of whom have either ratified it or acceded to it. Importantly, this treaty has not been signed by any of the nine states that have nuclear weapons. The three distinctions highlighted on the map are between the states that have signed the treaty, ratified the treaty or acceded the treaty. Where the initial signature indicates a state’s intention to become a party to the agreement, ratification formalises the decision and is legally binding. Accession allows a state to join a treaty at a later date and is equal to being ratified.

Strong content alone is no longer enough. Strategic focus, credibility and smart use of AI are becoming key success factors in 2025. The new Statista+ Content Marketing Trend Study offers valuable insights into how marketers are navigating growing demands and shifting priorities. A must-read for anyone shaping content strategies today. Full study available here: https://lnkd.in/eHmejgm2

While Republicans' trust in U.S. institutions has surged recently, that of Democrats has reached a new all-time low. This is the result of an ongoing survey by Gallup. As of June 2025, 37 percent of Republicans trusted the average U.S. institution (out of nine surveyed), while this was only 26 percent for Democrats. A previous low for Democrats in the survey that has been running since 1979 was 30 percent in 2019, the third year of the first Trump administration. Republicans' lowpoint was - also at 26 percent - in 2022 and 2023, the second and third year with President Joe Biden in power. Out of the continuously surveyed institutions, Republicans saw the biggest gains in trust for the military, closely followed by Congress (from 4 percent to a still-low 19 percent) and organized religion. Even banks and organized labor earned percentage point increases in the double digits concerning trust levels among Republicans in just the past year. Democrats lost the most trust out of institutions included in the survey in the military, followed by newspapers and organized labor. Interestingly, both groups had no or minimal changes in confidence in the Supreme Court, which 48 percent of Republicans and 16 percent of Democrats trusted most recently. Looking at all institutions surveyed by Gallup, more than 50 percent of Americans trust small business, the military and science. Black Americans exhibited lower levels of trust in U.S. institutions compared to white respondents, according to the release, while both groups were unified by their mistrust in big business and Congress.