Predictions for 2030 | Future timeline

Read 663 predictions for 2030, a year that will see the world transform in big and small ways; this includes disruptions throughout our culture, technology, science, health and business sectors. It’s your future, discover what you’re in for.

Quantumrun Foresight prepared this list; A futurist consulting firm that uses strategic foresight to help companies thrive from future trends.

Fast forecasts for 2030

Germany outlaws combustion fuel cars, permitting only sales of electric cars going forward. 1
New Mini Ice Age to begin between 2030 to 2036. 1
Aquaculture provides the nearly two thirds of the world's seafood 1
Surgeons can reroute nerves to enable paralyzed people to use their hands 1
Scientists develop a flu vaccine that protects against all strains 1
Flying cars hit the road, and the air 1
Type 2 diabetes symptoms can be reversed with injection of the protein FGF1 1
Deafness solved by triggering sensory receptor regrowth in the Atoh1 gene 1
Artificial blood is mass-produced for transfusions 1
Scientists successfully engineer yeast from scratch 1
Infrared-capturing graphene technology available in contact lenses 1
Doctors begin regularly analyzing patients' genetic susceptibility to drug side effects 1
India becomes the most populous country on Earth 1
Scientists drill into Earth's mantle 1
Cost of solar panels, per watt, equals 0.5 US dollars 1
South Africa's "Jasper project" is fully built 1
Kenya's "Konza City" is fully built 1
Libya's "Great Man-Made River project" is fully built 1
World population forecasted to reach 8,500,766,000 1
Largest age cohort for the Chinese population is 40-44 1
Share of global car sales taken by autonomous vehicles equals 20 per cent 1
World sales of electric vehicles reaches 13,166,667 1
(Moore's Law) Calculations per second, per $1,000, equals 10^17 (one human brain) 1
Average number of connected devices, per person, is 13 1
Global number of Internet connected devices reaches 109,200,000,000 1
Predicted global mobile web traffic equals 234 exabytes 1
Global Internet traffic grows to 708 exabytes 1
Largest age cohort for the Brazilian population is 25-34 and 45-49 1
Largest age cohort for the Mexican population is 30-34 1
Largest age cohort for the Middle East population is 25-34 1
Largest age cohort for the African population is 0-4 1
Largest age cohort for the European population is 40-49 1
Largest age cohort for the Indian population is 15-19 1
Largest age cohort for the United States population is 35-39 1