Nearly nine in ten executives say home economies are worse now than six months ago

Visual form

Stacked Bar / Stacked Column: regional executive-sentiment bars for current economic conditions.

Layout / body structure

Each region is represented by one vertical stacked column. The column segments divide respondents into worse, no change, and better views of their home economy compared with six months earlier.

What is being compared

It compares executives’ assessments of current economic conditions across regions. The chart highlights how Greater China differs from other regions in the balance of worse versus better responses.

Measurement system

The measure is percent of respondents in each region. Each stacked column sums to 100 percent across worse, no change, and better responses.

Visible structure inside the graphic

Outside Greater China, the dark worse segment dominates nearly every bar. Greater China is the visual exception, with a large blue better segment and a much smaller worse share than other regions.

Main takeaway from the visual

The chart shows that executives almost everywhere saw their home economies as worse than six months earlier, while Greater China had a much more balanced and comparatively positive response pattern.

Key standout values or extremes

Europe shows 95 percent worse, North America 97 percent worse, Latin America 98 percent worse, and other developing markets 98 percent worse. Greater China is the exception, with 47 percent saying better.

Controls / sequence, when applicable

This is a static stacked-column chart; there are no in-chart controls to operate.

Companion media, when applicable

There is no separate companion audio or video; the stacked-column chart is the full visual on this page.