In recent years, much economic discourse has focused on inflation, interest rates, unemployment rates and GDP. As important as they are, each is the cumulative result of billions of individual decisions by consumers, businesspeople, lawmakers, and others. Perhaps the most important element of each of those decisions is the mindset of those making them; in short, their collective confidence in the future.

If you’re still making up your mind about the year ahead ,this graphic of Global Economic Confidence in 2025, by Country may be helpful.