IFs helps users ask structured questions about long-term change.

The platform connects data and model relationships across major global systems, allowing users to examine how changes in one area may affect outcomes in another. A user can compare scenarios involving education, demographic change, economic growth, governance, energy, agriculture, climate, infrastructure, health, conflict, trade, migration, aid, and international relations.

IFs is especially useful when users want to:

IFs connects data, geography, systems, and time so users can examine how change in one area may shape outcomes across others.

Its historical data help ground projected pathways in observed patterns. Its country-level structure allows users to compare individual countries or aggregate results to regional and global scales. Its dynamically connected submodules add depth across issue areas while keeping those systems linked within one platform.

Together, these features support scenario-based analysis across human, social, and natural systems. With a scenario horizon to 2150, IFs also allows users to examine issues whose full effects may unfold beyond 2100, including climate, demographic change, infrastructure, resource demand, and long-term human development.

From accessing the IFs platform, to understanding its architecture, learning how to use it, and uncovering resources to support your use, select your entry point from this menu of options.