Economy

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Qatar and Saudi Arabia together produced roughly 303 bcm of natural gas in 2024, more than the entire African continent's 47 countries combined, which totalled around 250 bcm and just 6% of world output. That comparison, visible in the treemap accompanying this article where each country's cell

Which Countries Really Take the Biggest Cut of Their Economy? Every country collects tax, but how much of the total economy actually flows through government hands varies enormously. This measure looks at general government tax revenue as a share of GDP — in other words, out of everything a country produces and earns in a

What One Worker Is Actually Worth, Country by Country Divide a country's total economic output by the number of people producing it, and you get a rough measure of how much value the average worker generates in a year. It's not take-home pay — plenty of that output goes to profits, taxes and investment rather

Where Manufacturing Still Pays the Wages Across the world, roughly one in four workers holds an industrial job — in a factory, on a construction site, or down a mine. This ranking measures what share of each country's employed population works in "industry", a category that covers manufacturing, construction, mining and utilities, using modelled estimates

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China produced 97.9 million tonnes of meat in 2024, more than the entire continent of Europe's 64.5 million tonnes across roughly 30 countries, and more than all of North America's 64.6 million tonnes combined. The gap runs to roughly 33 million tonnes in each case. The treemap

Where a Baby’s First Year Is Most Dangerous Infant mortality counts how many babies out of every 1,000 born alive die before their first birthday. It's one of the starkest measures of how a country treats its most vulnerable citizens, because it captures the combined effect of nutrition, clean water, healthcare access, and the presence

The Countries Where Growing Old Is the Norm, Not the Exception Life expectancy for women measures the average number of years a girl born today could expect to live, based on current death rates. It's one of the clearest single signals of a country's health system, diet, wealth, and stability, because it captures everything from

The Countries Where Almost Nobody Has a Boss Most people in rich countries work for someone else: they get a payslip, a contract, and a manager. But that arrangement is far from universal. Across much of the world, working for yourself — farming a small plot, running a market stall, fixing things for cash —

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Brazil holds roughly 238 million cattle, the largest national herd on Earth, while India, the country most associated with cows in the global imagination, counts about 195 million. That gap of some 43 million animals is the single largest distortion visible on the treemap accompanying this article,

Which Countries Still Run on Factories? Manufacturing used to be the engine of almost every rich nation. Today, most wealthy economies have shifted towards services — banking, tourism, software — and let their factory floors quietly shrink. But some countries still make things as their primary business, and the gap between the top and bottom