According to a survey conducted from April 2019 to April 2020, 57 percent of the respondents aged between 16 and 24 years old used their laptops to watch catch up, on demand or video streaming services. One fifth of 35-54 year olds used tablets for the same purpose.

According to a report by StepStone in 2021, almost 51 percent of respondents German companies needed to catch up with workplace diversity throught the promotion of older employees. Around 50 percent of people thought equal opportunity of promotions was something needed to be improved.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has been leading the management of the Tuition Partners (TP) pillar of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in 2020/2021, funded as part of the government coronavirus catch-up package. The TP programme allows schools to access subsidised tuition from a list of 33 tuition partners, quality approved by the EEF, to support pupils who have missed out the most as a result of school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on supporting disadvantaged pupils, in particular those eligible for Pupil Premium, but with flexibility for schools to select those pupils who they feel were most in need of the support. The EEF commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to run a reach and engagement nimble randomised controlled trial (RCT) with EM Tuition, an approved NTP Tuition Partner. The RCT explored the impact of two distinctive types of recruitment emails on school sign-up to the TP programme provided by EM Tuition: one email included a testimonial from a headteacher on the benefits of tutoring, the other included a summary of the research evidence of the benefits of tutoring. EM Tuition sent recruitment emails during February and March 2021 to 1,949 primary, secondary, and special schools in areas of England where they offer tutoring provision, including Hertfordshire, Essex, North London, the East of England, and Suffolk. Schools were randomly allocated to receive one of the two types of email messages. A team from NFER analysed the impact of the different recruitment emails on the proportion of schools signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or providing an Expression of Interest (EoI) for their pupils to receive tutoring from EM Tuition as part of the TP programme.

The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has been leading the management of the Tuition Partners (TP) pillar of the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) in 2020/2021, funded as part of the government coronavirus catch-up package. The TP programme allows schools to access subsidised tuition from a list of 33 tuition partners, quality approved by the EEF, to support pupils who have missed out the most as a result of school closures due to the COVID 19 pandemic. The focus is on supporting disadvantaged pupils, in particular those eligible for Pupil Premium, but with flexibility for schools to select those pupils who they feel were most in need of the support. The EEF commissioned the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) to run a reach and engagement nimble randomised controlled trial (RCT) with EM Tuition, an approved NTP Tuition Partner. The RCT explored the impact of two distinctive types of recruitment emails on school sign-up to the TP programme provided by EM Tuition: one email included a testimonial from a headteacher on the benefits of tutoring, the other included a summary of the research evidence of the benefits of tutoring. EM Tuition sent recruitment emails during February and March 2021 to 1,949 primary, secondary, and special schools in areas of England where they offer tutoring provision, including Hertfordshire, Essex, North London, the East of England, and Suffolk. Schools were randomly allocated to receive one of the two types of email messages. A team from NFER analysed the impact of the different recruitment emails on the proportion of schools signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) or providing an Expression of Interest (EoI) for their pupils to receive tutoring from EM Tuition as part of the TP programme.

According to a survey on media content consumption in Australia conducted in 2023, 58 percent of respondents claimed that they used ABC i-view, making it the most popular FTA catch-up service. The other popular platforms in this category were SBS on demand and 7plus.

In 2022, television sets were the most popular devices used to catch up programs in France. They were followed closely by mobile phones, which accounted for 36.1 percent of catch-up television consumption that same year.

This statistic shows the results of a survey comparing the number of television channels and the number of television catch-up services used on a regular basis by TV viewers in Germany in 2016. The survey found that 20 percent of respondents stated to use between six and ten different TV channels regularly.

In 2022, 16.6 percent of French catch-up TV users watched a catch-up program at least once a day. That same year, more than 40 percent among them did so at least once a week, but less than once a day.

The impact the 2020 coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic has on the Chinese smartphone market will be mostly felt at the first half of the year, when forecast shipments are lower after the epidemic than before. The market will, however, resume the momentum in the second half of the year, eventually catching up on the previous expectations, according to the forecast.

In 2023, life insurance premiums written in the United States were valued at 714.9 billion U.S. dollars. Non-life insurance premiums written in the U.S. amounted to 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars in that year, however unlike most countries this amount includes basic health cover, meaning the U.S. is over two trillion U.S. dollars higher than second-placed China, who recorded non-life insurance premiums of 333.5 billion U.S. dollars. Berkshire Hathaway is the largest global insurer Berkshire Hathaway, which is owned by Warren Buffett and headquartered in the US state of Nebraska, was the largest insurer worldwide in terms of revenue in 2023. However, the next largest insurer was Ping An Insurance, which is based in the rapidly growing Chinese city of Shenzhen. Berkshire Hathaway vs Ping An Insurance The revenues of both insurers have been steadily growing over the past decade. However, the growth of Ping An Insurance has been more rapid for Ping An than for Berkshire Hathaway, which may indicate that the former will some day catch up with the latter.

Currently, China manufactures about 20 percent of intermediate products traded in the global supply chain and Chinese products represent a critical part of the global value chain of the electrical machinery sector. For this reason, the disruption caused by COVID-19 in China alone is expected to reverberate on the economy of many other countries worldwide. In the European Union, the electrical machinery industry is expected to lose about 1.2 billion U.S. dollars from a two percent reduction in China exports of intermediate inputs. The European chemical and automotive sector are also expected to suffer similar impacts.

China's role in the global economy Since the beginning of the 1990s, China started to open up its markets with attractive incentives to foreign investors. Three decades later, the country has become the second-largest economy in the world with the highest absolute catch-up effect observed during this time span. For instance, between 2003 and 2019, China's semiconductor consumption market share increased at a high pace, reaching 60 percent in 2019. Besides, the export value of machine tools from China reached roughly four billion U.S. dollars in 2018, up from 1.4 billion U.S. dollars in 2009. With solid economic strategies, the country could quickly reduce the wealth gap with the developed countries. At the moment, the country is highly specialized in various industries and continues its progress to strengthen its international export position. China’s exports of high-tech goods represented 27 percent of its total exports in 2018.

Impact of COVID-19 on the Chinese economy For the first time since the 2000s, the Chinese real gross domestic product (GDP) experienced a negative growth rate in the first quarter of 2020 because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak. The economy is expected to grow only by one percent in 2020. Yet over the past few years, the average annual real GDP growth rate in China was around seven percent. To take a closer look at how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the Chinese economy, a multidimensional approach is necessary since the country has a vastly diversified economic activity. For instance, between January and February 2020, the total industrial production in China declined by 13.5 percent compared to the previous year. But Chinese industrial production started to recover quickly. By April 2020, the total industrial production in China reached a positive year-on-year change, roughly 3.9 percent. Although the country experienced a large economic shock caused by the coronavirus outbreak, it started to recover quickly thanks to strong economic policy responses. By the fourth quarter of 2020, the Chinese business and government purchases of technology goods and services are expected to grow by about seven percent.

Around a third of surveyed business-to-business (B2B) technology buyers believe that B2B tech spending will return to pre-pandemic levels in 2021. Another 24 percent think it will increase; only 17 percent are of the opinion that B2B tech spending will not catch up with pre-COVID levels in 2021.

The number of visits from the European Union to the United Kingdom continued to grow in 2023 over the previous year, after shrinking in 2021 due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite the annual increase, inbound trips from EU member countries to the UK remained below pre-pandemic levels, totaling 22.5 million in 2023. That year, the number of visits from the UK to the European Union also rose compared to 2022 but did not catch up with pre-pandemic figures.