World economic dynamics and international trade: latest trends

The article examines the most significant shifts in the evolution of the global economy and international trade over the past decade (2016-2025). The presented dynamic series made it possible to cover a difficult period of modern history, starting from the stage preceding the global crisis turmoil of 2020, caused by the expected emergence of a «black swan» in the form of a large-scale spread of a new viral infection in the world, and ending with the latest stage of post-crisis development. At the same time, its most important feature should be considered the extraordinary resilience demonstrated by the world economy in the face of serious shocks, which allowed experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to describe it as something amazing in their official documents. Similar assessments of the beginning of the global economic recovery, albeit with reservations regarding the relatively low pace of the process and diverging trajectories, are contained in the latest releases of the Fund published in January 2025. The appropriateness of the estimated characteristics of the data presented in them is obvious, which predetermined the author's analysis based on the methodology of a comparative statistical study.