Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article makes one comparison impossible to ignore: Ukraine's rectangle is larger than Saudi Arabia's, France's, and Japan's. A country with a GDP of roughly $200 billion — smaller than Portugal's — spent $84.1 billion on defense in 2025, equal to 40% of its …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China's $856.8 billion in high-tech exports is larger than the combined total of the United States, Germany, South Korea, and the Netherlands. In the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area is proportional to export value rather than land mass or population, China's rectangle occupies nearly a …
High-Technology Exports 2024: The Geography of Innovation Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China produced $4.66 trillion in manufactured goods in 2024 — more than every European nation combined, including Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and 40-plus others that together reached only $3.61 trillion. The treemap accompanying this article makes that gap visible: China's rectangle consumes 37.52% of the …
Manufacturing Output 2024: China Out-Manufactures All of Europe — Combined Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. France ranks sixth in the world for remittance inflows — wedged between Pakistan ($40.5B, rank 5) and Bangladesh ($33.9B, rank 7), according to 2025 World Bank KNOMAD data. That placement is the most disorienting fact in the dataset, and the treemap accompanying this article makes it impossible …
Remittance Inflows by Country 2025: The $800 Billion Map That Defies Intuition Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article shows the United States as the dominant rectangle — 52.4 million migrants, representing 17% of the entire global migrant population, a block that dwarfs every other country by area. That visual is accurate but misleading as an entry point. The more disorienting …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The Democratic Republic of the Congo currently has roughly 103 million people — a country most people struggle to locate on a map, smaller today than Mexico. By 2100, UN World Population Prospects 2024 projects it will reach 431 million, ranking fifth globally and exceeding the present-day …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. When you look at a treemap of global military spending sized by dollar value rather than geography, the rectangle marked "Germany" sits fourth in the world — larger than India's, larger than the United Kingdom's, wedged between Russia and a combined European block that now nearly matches …
Military Expenditure 2025: Europe’s Military Awakening Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The country that attracted more net migrants in 2025 than any other on Earth — more than the United States, more than the United Kingdom, more than Canada — was Ukraine, a country under active Russian military assault. Ukraine's 1.70 million net arrivals represent 25.45% of all …
Net Migration 2025: War, Fallen Dictators, and Mass Return Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article distorts geography in a specific direction: Russia and the United States together consume 85.84% of the chart. That visual fact has a number behind it — 10,462 warheads between two countries, out of 12,187 worldwide — and as of February 5, 2026, …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The Democratic Republic of the Congo — a country most people cannot locate on a map without prompting — is projected to rank 5th in the world by population in 2100, with 431 million people. That would make it larger than today's United States, up from roughly …
