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25 Sep 2025  |  Global  |  Megatrends

Trend Opportunity Profile Series—Social Trends (3rd Edition)

Transformative Megatrends Enabling Growth and Innovation till 2030

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This series of trend opportunity profiles discusses upcoming trends reflecting major shifts in consumption patterns due to changing geopolitical dynamics and new generations impacting economic and social dimensions.This study highlights the social impact of evolving geopolitics through changing immigration stance across various regions, shifts in p...

Buy now, pay later (BNPL), also referred to as point of sale (PoS) installment loans, is a short-term financing option that enables consumers to spread out payments for purchases over a period of time. The increase in eCommerce activity during the COVID-19 pandemic brought along with it a strong interest in alternative spending options. BNPL, a sub...

Globally, the aging population is enlarging, and this group’s participation in the labor market is increasing accordingly. By 2030, people aged 60 and above are expected to outnumber children under age 10 by 60 million. Projections estimate 30% growth in labor participation from the 65+ age group. At global scale, the increase in life expectancy pr...

The trend opportunity profile series covers specific opportunities emerging from future trend evolutions designed to help clients discover and prioritize the most consequential medium-to-long-term trends that are actively transforming their businesses’ growth environment. These trend opportunity profiles cover 11 key industries: including aerospace...

Rapid technology advancements and rising customer expectations have disrupted the global retail industry in the past decade. Outdated retail store concepts, new generations of consumers, and new points of commerce (voice commerce, for example) have also disrupted the industry; however, COVID-19 has been the key disruptor. After the pandemic, retail...

The financial services industry is on the brink of disruption, as the use of technology poses a challenge to market players and their existing products and services and associated costs. Thus it is important to revisit one of the oldest industries and re-conceptualize how it will thrive in the future aligning itself to looming social and technologi...

Marketing is changing rapidly. Customers are no longer driven by advertisements; instead, their purchase decisions are influenced by their favorite content creators. Moreover, owing to the growing time spent online and the increasing amount of content, the creator economy is changing the way marketing is done. In this study, Frost & Sullivan exp...

The growing global care-dependent population, which includes children, the elderly, the sick, and the disabled, will create a rapidly burgeoning market for care economy-related services. Frost & Sullivan estimates that the global care-dependent population will reach between 3.2 billion and 4.6 billion persons by 2035, representing a sizeable share ...

Frost & Sullivan anticipates 2024 to be a year of convergence of novelty and necessity, with a paradigm shift to the mainstream adoption of artificial intelligence (AI). The retail experience will be completely transformed by social commerce and metaverse developments, which will drive eCommerce. In addition, a more individualized and decentralized...