historical trends
Shifts through time
Historical trends are patterns of change observed over extended periods of time.
The phrase appears in discussions of economics, demographics, politics, and culture: Historical trends suggest markets eventually recover, The historical trend toward urbanization continues.
Identifying such trends requires looking backward to project forward, though past patterns don't guarantee future outcomes.
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
- periodizationDivision into distinct periods
- social evolutionGradual change in societies
- timelineOrdered display of events
- epochDistinct historical period
industrialization · era · grand narrative · power dynamics · revolutions · social upheaval · winds of change · rise and fall · trade routes · watershed · demographic shifts · wealth inequality · scientific breakthroughs · turning point · civil rights movements · financial crises · economic cycles · boom and bust
- electionsballot, ballots, voter registration, candidates, polls
- historiographyhistoriography, historiographer, secondary sources, primary sources, periodization
- Patent Termspatent law, patent office, patent rights, patent system, patent holders
- suicide statisticssuicide rates, death rates, demographic data, youth suicide, teen suicide
historical trendspredictive models
Algorithms estimating future outcomes
futurism · prognostication · prognostications · extrapolations · real-time data
historical trendsanomalies
Departures from expected patterns
outliers · random events · aberrations · blips · exceptions