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§ 01The source list

33 figures. 22 publishers.

Figure	What it measures	Source	Data year
20%	Managers who say their organisation excels at decision making; 61% say most of their decision time is used ineffectively.	McKinsey Global Survey, Decision making in the age of urgency (1,259 respondents) ↗	2018
37%	Share of working time managers spend making decisions.	McKinsey Global Survey, Decision making in the age of urgency ↗	2018
91.5%	Major projects that go over budget, over schedule or both, across 16,000+ projects in 136 countries.	Bent Flyvbjerg project database, via strategy+business ↗	2023
<1%	Major projects completed on budget, on time and delivering the benefits promised.	Bent Flyvbjerg project database, via strategy+business ↗	2023
CPR 3.1	The English Court of Appeal held that courts can order Early Neutral Evaluation even without the parties’ consent (Lomax v Lomax [2019] EWCA Civ 1467).	Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer, ADR notes ↗	2019
US$21.8tn	Economic impact of violence on the world economy in 2025, about 10.5% of global GDP.	Institute for Economics & Peace, Global Peace Index 2026 ↗	2025
99	Countries that became less peaceful in the past year, the most since the Index began.	Institute for Economics & Peace, Global Peace Index 2026 ↗	2026
103	Countries involved in some form of external conflict, up from 59 in 2008.	Institute for Economics & Peace, Global Peace Index 2026 ↗	2026
US$2.9tn	Record global military spending in 2025.	Institute for Economics & Peace, Global Peace Index 2026 ↗	2025
61	Active state-based armed conflicts in 2024, the highest number since records began in 1946.	Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) ↗	2024
11	Conflicts that reached the level of war (1,000+ battle deaths) in 2024, the most since 2016.	Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) ↗	2024
123m	People forcibly displaced worldwide at the end of 2024.	UNHCR Global Trends, via Euronews ↗	2024
5.1bn	People with at least one unmet justice need: a broad 2019 estimate that also counts legal exclusion and extreme injustice.	World Justice Project, Measuring the Justice Gap ↗	2019
1.5bn	People who cannot obtain justice for civil, administrative or criminal justice problems.	World Justice Project, Measuring the Justice Gap ↗	2019
54m+	Cases pending across India’s courts at 31 December 2025 (district courts 47.7m, High Courts 6.4m, Supreme Court 92,101).	Ministry of Law and Justice reply to the Lok Sabha, via IANS ↗	2025
61%	People worldwide with a moderate or high sense of grievance against business, government and the rich.	Edelman Trust Barometer 2025, via Cooley PubCo ↗	2025
4 in 10	People who approve of at least one form of hostile activism to drive change (53% of 18–34 year olds).	Edelman Trust Barometer 2025, via Cooley PubCo ↗	2025
2 in 3	People who worry that journalists, government officials and CEOs intentionally lie to them.	Edelman Trust Barometer 2025, via Cooley PubCo ↗	2025
1 in 6	People worldwide affected by loneliness, linked to an estimated 871,000 deaths a year.	World Health Organization, Commission on Social Connection ↗	2025
£28.5bn	Annual cost of workplace conflict to UK employers, about £1,028 per employee.	Acas, Estimating the costs of workplace conflict (2021) ↗	2019
9.7m	UK employees who experienced conflict at work in one year; 485,800 resign as a result each year.	Acas, Estimating the costs of workplace conflict (2021) ↗	2019
2.8 hrs	Time each US employee spent dealing with conflict every week, about US$359bn in paid hours.	CPP Inc. Global Human Capital Report, via EHS Today ↗	2008
20%	Employees worldwide who are engaged at work; disengagement cost an estimated US$10tn, about 9% of global GDP.	Gallup State of the Global Workplace 2026, via Kyodo News PR Wire ↗	2025
US$102bn	Record value of new ICC cases in 2024: 841 cases, 2,392 parties from 136 jurisdictions.	ICC Dispute Resolution Statistics 2024, via Global Legal Post ↗	2024
48%	Users who prefer international arbitration combined with mediation or other ADR for cross-border disputes (2,402 respondents).	Queen Mary University of London & White & Case, 2025 International Arbitration Survey ↗	2025
60–70%	Commercial mediations that settle on the day, with a further ~20% settling in the following weeks.	CEDR, Mediation success rate ↗	2024
24	States party to the Singapore Convention on Mediation (60 signatories), in force since 12 September 2020.	UNCITRAL status table ↗	2026
172	Contracting states to the New York Convention on foreign arbitral awards (1958).	New York Convention Guide ↗	2023
61%	Family business leaders who say the family has a succession plan, leaving nearly four in ten without one.	PwC Global NextGen Survey 2022 ↗	2022
70%	Global Pound Conference delegates who named external lawyers as the main obstacle to change in commercial dispute resolution (4,000+ stakeholders, 24 countries).	Global Pound Conference series report, via Herbert Smith Freehills ↗	2018
2 in 3	In-house counsel who said they need more efficiency in dispute resolution.	Global Pound Conference series report, via Herbert Smith Freehills ↗	2018
~99%	Disputes referred to dispute boards that were resolved without litigation or arbitration, in an industry survey. (Industry survey; methodology not published.)	Dispute Board Federation International Survey (2008), via Wikipedia ↗	2008
No. 1	The most common cause of construction disputes, year after year: failure to properly administer the contract.	Arcadis Global Construction Disputes Report, via Pinsent Masons ↗	2018

§ 02What we left out

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Success rates without a named source and population
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