Globalization at a record high – despite pandemic and geopolitical conflict, reveals DHL Global Connectedness Report 2024

DHL and New York University’s Stern School of Business today released the new DHL Global Connectedness Report 2024, the most comprehensive available analysis of globalization's state and trajectory. It tracks how flows of trade, capital, information, and people move around the world and measures the globalization of 181 countries and territories.

The report reveals that globalization reached a record high in 2022 and remained close to that level in 2023 – despite a series of global shocks over the past decade, including the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK's withdrawal from the EU, and tense geopolitical situation. The evidence strongly rebuts the notion that the growth of global flows has gone into reverse.

More in our press release.