2019 will be a year of eye-catching rises.
In America, it will be the first time
that baby boomers, born
between 1946 and 1964,
will be outnumbered by millennials,
born between 1981 and 1996.
And it will be the year that half
the world's population will be online.
Many of these new internet
users will come from India,
where for the first time,
national GDP will rise
above that of Britain,
India's former colonial ruler.
But the country with the
fastest growing GDP in 2019,
is likely to be Syria, as
it tries to bounce back
from years of war.
China's growth will slow, but
its ambitions remain high,
as it vies with Turkey to open
the world's biggest airport.
The new mega-hub near Beijing,
will have capacity for 100
million passengers a year
and will help make
China the biggest source
of tourists on the planet in 2019.
But China is also aiming
to fly even higher.
Fifty years after American Neil Armstrong
took his giant leap for mankind,
2019 will be the year China launches
an unmanned mission to
the far side of the moon.
Israel will make lunar headlines too,
when its Sparrow lander
becomes the first`moon mission
not run by a government.
Also taking off in 2019, will
be the legal cannabis market.
It is expected to grow by
40% to 18 billion dollars,
thanks to changing laws in
Canada and parts of America.
Making 2019, truly the year of new highs!
