The Global Cooperation Barometer 2026 report is issued by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with McKinsey & Company, discussed the level of global cooperation in general against the backdrop of escalating pressures as well as its changing form amidst geopolitical tensions. The report further argues that targeted, interest-based cooperation is advancing, showing the emergence of a new geopolitical context.

The report has five pillars across trade, capital, innovation and technology, climate and natural capital, health and wellness, and peace and security. The report gives 41 indicators that show the locations where cooperation is holding, where it is fading, and the ways it is getting restructured as a reaction to the shifting economic, political, and technological realities. The report’s findings are focused on a great need for more flexible and pragmatic approaches towards the issue of cooperation in a more and more uncertain environment. Besides that, the report recommends that government and business executives should be capable of grasping these ever, changing patterns which are necessary for building up resilience, handling risk, and moving forward shared prosperity.

According to the report, overall cooperation appears largely unchanged from previous years, but the composition of cooperation appears to be changing. Multilateralism has weakened the most, whereas metrics in which flexible and smaller arrangements of cooperation can operate, such as data flows, services trade, and selective capital flows have continued to grow.