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What Could Go Right? The Best News of 2024 A roundup of progress worldwide from the past year

January 17, 2025/

This year was one of great change, in which over a billion people, the highest number in history, participated in an election in their country. Conflict worsened across the globe, in the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, and December gave us several last-minute contenders for most unexpected political drama.But you probably know all of those (mostly) dark stories already. Our operating principle here at The Progress Network is to shine a light on the stories of progress that don’t reach your inboxes and social media feeds. These steps forward occur every day, under our noses, and there were plenty across the globe in 2024.

Like our roundup of United States–based progress that we published last week, below you’ll find the best things from around the world that happened in 2024. The list is not comprehensive, but represents the year’s most notable developments. (And like last week, some of the stories include data from previous years that were released this year.)

Whether you read our newsletter, listen to our podcast, or follow us on social media, thank you for engaging with The Progress Network this year. Please consider sharing our work with friends and family, and we’ll see you again in 2025! Happy Holidays.

Emma Varvaloucas

(Many thanks to Alexis V. for sharing)

 


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