Over 60,000 people now work in the creative and digital industries in Greater Manchester, according to Amion, which forecasts that number will grow 27% by 2034.
Millions more people in Asia and the Pacific regions have already been affected by heatwaves, water shortages and forest fires since El Niño conditions started in mid-2015, says Ocha in a new briefing paper, which forecasts that harvests will continue to be affected worldwide throughout 2016.
There are approximately 140 million users online in China, according to the China Internet Network Information Center, which forecasts that within five years China will overtake the United States as the largest group of Internet users as broadband services are rolled out into fourth- and fifth-tier cities and as disposable incomes increase.
But Forbes ASAP recently cited figures from London-based Ovum Research, which forecasted that unified messaging will be a $6.3 billion market by 2002, with an estimated 14 million mailboxes.
As education budgets shrivel, it may spread.Crude calculationsThe International Energy Agency produced a report on Iraq's energy future, which forecast that the country could produce 8.3m barrels of oil a day by 2035, up from the current 3m.
Most bullish is Moody's Analytics, which forecast that the package would add 1.9 million jobs, cutting the unemployment rate by a point, and increase growth by two percentage points.
But East Asian economies invested much more in education and infrastructure than India does today.A recent study from Goldman Sachs, which forecast that India could sustain 8% growth until 2020, was widely trumpeted in Indian newspapers.
Other firms and commentators that have announced their predictions for 2015 include property company Savills, which forecast that the UK market would see a 2% rise in house prices in 2015.
Joshua Raymond, market strategist at City Index, said: The [market] turnaround was driven mainly through an upbeat statement from US bank State Street, which forecast that its second quarter earnings would beat market expectations.
(Last week's report from the Congressional Budget Office, which forecast that, in the course of the next decade, the measure would increase the number of uninsured Americans by twenty-four million, has further eroded Republican support).
China's foreign-currency debt rating outlook was raised to positive by Fitch Ratings, which forecast that the nation's reserves of overseas currencies would exceed $400 billion this year, second only to Japan.
