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Marc Canal Noguer, Nick Leung and Chris Bradley

Marc Canal Noguer is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute.

Nick Leung is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute.

Chris Bradley is a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and a director of the McKinsey Global Institute.

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A path to universal prosperity by 2100

New geopolitical and planetary crises seem to dominate news headlines, deepening a sense of pessimism about the state of humanity. But looking back over the past century, a very different picture — one of unprecedented human progress — emerges.

February 10, 2026