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In 2024, TikTok was still the most downloaded mobile app worldwide. The short-video sharing app generated 825.5 million downloads during the same year. The social video app Instagram followed with 817 million downloads. Fast-fashion app Temu ranked in fifth, with over 516 million downloads for global users in the last examined year, while ByteDance-published video editing app CapCut had around 410 million downloads.
Owned by the Beijing-based tech company ByteDance and launched in 2017, TikTok quickly gained popularity after the acquisition of Musical.ly in 2018. In 2025, the number of TikTok users worldwide was expected to exceed 955 million, with the United States being one of the leading markets. In 2024, TikTok engaged the largest audience from Indonesia, with over 157 million consumers from the region using the app. United States, and Brazil followed with 120.5 and 105.2 users, respectively.
In October 2021, Facebook was renamed and rebranded as Meta, with the CEO Mark Zuckerberg aiming to be associated with the metaverse. Meta’s products include Facebook, Messager, Instagram, and WhatsApp, also known as Meta’s Family of Apps (FoA), generating most of Meta’s revenue. Moreover, these are among the most popular social networks worldwide. As part of its rebranding, Meta’s Reality Labs business segment develops a series of virtual reality (VR) headsets, the Meta Quest - one of the leading VR devices on the market.
As per the ranking of the global combined land and ocean annually averaged temperature anomaly, 2024 was the warmest year on record, with a warming of almost 1.3 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. The year 2023 ranked second. An exceptionally strong El Niño event occurred in 2023, which contributed to record global average warming of 1.19 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average. The past ten years were all amongst the warmest on record.
In 2025, Generation Z were by far spending the most money on Valentine's Day at around 235 U.S. dollars. By contrast, Baby boomers had an expenditure of just 53 U.S. dollars.
As of February 2025, artificial intelligence research company OpenAI had the largest equity funding of any unicorn company in the United States, having raised 18 billion U.S. dollars in total. Second in the list of leading global unicorns in terms of equity funding was e-cigarette manufacturer JUUL, with 15 billion U.S. dollars, followed by Databricks with 14 billion U.S. dollars.
Just over a week before the next German election scheduled for February 23, 2025, the preferred Chancellor of Germany for 33 percent of voters was the leader of the CDU, Friedrich Merz. Around a quarter of voters preferred the Green Party leader, Robert Habeck, to the other candidates for Chancellor, with the current Chancellor and SPD leader Olaf Scholz on 17 percent, and AfD leader Alice Weidel on 14 percent.
In 2025, it was estimated that Swedish furniture retailer IKEA generated approximately 11.6 billion U.S. dollars in e-commerce net sales worldwide. This marked an increase from the previous year's revenue estimates reaching 11.4 billion dollars.
In 2024, approximately 6.106 million marriages were registered in China. This represents a decrease by 20.5 percent from the previous year and the lowest figure in recent years.
In the last two decades, the number of registered marriages has grown from about 8.5 million in 2000, to a peak at almost 13.5 million in 2013. In the following years, the figure started dropping again, until it was at the same level again ten years later. A change in size of age cohorts between 20 and 29 years in the Chinese population corresponded with this development, but the falling marriage numbers may also be attributed to changing marriage habits in the Chinese society. This is reflected by an increasing divorce rate since 2000, which shows that the concept of divorce has become more accepted and less of a taboo in Chinese culture as it used to be.
Apart from the increased acceptance of divorces and change in social norms towards marriages, Chinese youngsters nowadays also have a harder time in finding partners or time to date, since Chinese workers experience the highest working hours in the region. This is echoed by the fact that a significant proportion of singles in China actually were professionals or employed in sectors under frequent time pressure such as media or finance. Even for couples who managed to find a partner in the end, almost one-fifth of couples could only see each other once every few years, which is a rather unfortunate situation, and did not make it easier for couples to further develop the relationship.
In December 2024, Samsung Electronics invested around 11.5 billion South Korean won in newspaper advertising. The company also spent on advertising in magazines and television, although it was a much smaller investment in comparison to newspaper advertising.
According to the Corruption Perception Index, Uruguay was perceived as the least corrupt country in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024, with a score of 76 out of 100. Venezuela, on the other hand, was found to be the Latin American nation with the worst perceived level of corruption, at 10 points.
Uruguay has many factors contributing to its low public perception of corruption, from high average income levels to a close-knit urban population. At the forefront is the South American country's adherence to good governance and democracy. In fact, in 2024, Uruguay was ranked as the 13th most democratic country in the world. Going hand in hand with trust in institutions is the prospect of equal opportunities for Uruguayans social advancement. In this area, Uruguay is also ranked as the country in Latin America with the highest social mobility index score.
Corruption has long been an issue souring Latin America. Many experts in the region believe it to be the biggest hindrance to their countries. At the top of this list is Peru, with the largest share of Latin American respondents who think corruption is their country's main problem, followed by Colombia and Brazil. In light of a history of drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare, the number of Colombians who believe that the corrupt elite has captured their political system ranks as the highest in the world. To overcome the consequences of this reputation, the Colombian government has made significant efforts to pass anti-corruption legislation, such as the Colombian Penal Code and the Anti-Corruption Act.
Coffee is Australia’s most beloved beverage. Thousands of cafés operate across the country, with McDonald’s/McCafé reporting the highest number of locations across all popular coffee franchises at over 1,045 as of January 2025. Founded in Brisbane, Australian coffeehouse chain The Coffee Club had around 220 locations across Australia as of January 2025. Zarraffa's coffee shops, found primarily on Australia's East Coast, are popular among coffee drinkers in Queensland and New South Wales. Starbucks, while enjoying success in the United States, China, and Canada, among other countries, has struggled to gain footing in Australia's coffee shop landscape. Nonetheless, the Starbucks franchise opened its first ever location in Western Australia in October 2024 in the Perth suburb of Piara Waters.
Australia’s café and restaurant landscapeOver 55,000 cafés and restaurants were in operation across Australia at the end of the 2024 financial year, with New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland home to the majority of the country’s establishments. In terms of earnings, just over 34,000 of these cafés and restaurants had an annual turnover of between 200,000 and two million Australian dollars. Around 350 operating cafés and restaurants reported revenue of over 10 million Australian dollars annually.
Are Australians coffee aficionados?From strong espressos to milky cappuccinos, lattes, and flat whites, people across Australia love their morning ‘cuppa’ or afternoon caffeine boost. Australia’s annual domestic coffee consumption has been consistently over two million 60-kilogram bags over the past four years, with consumption predicted to remain stable in the 2025 financial year. At least one cup of coffee a day is a must for around three-quarters of Australia’s coffee consumers, with some even enjoying three or more cups on a daily basis. Several consumers have switched from takeout to homemade coffee to sustain their coffee habits in recent years due to rising prices across the country’s cafés. When investing in a good coffee machine for their homemade brews, performance, reliability, and design were the leading reasons for purchasing a particular coffee machine among Australian consumers.
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