Economy

The Countries Where a Dollar Buys 89,500 of Something If you turned $1 into local currency in different countries right now, you'd end up with wildly different piles of notes. In Kuwait, that dollar barely buys a third of a dinar. In some countries near the top of this ranking, it buys tens of thousands […]

The World’s Best Places to Live, According to the Data Every year, the United Nations tries to answer a deceptively simple question: which countries are actually the best places to live? Not just the richest, but the ones where people live the longest, healthiest lives and get the best access to education. The result is

Why Some Countries Take Nearly Two-Thirds of Your Top Salary — and Others Take None Every country decides, in its own way, how much of a high earner's income belongs to the state rather than the individual. The figures below track the top personal income tax rate — the percentage taken from the highest slice

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. In the treemap accompanying this article, India's rectangle is larger than Germany's, the United Kingdom's, and France's individually, even though India's economy remains smaller than Germany's on standard GDP measures. India recorded $1.37 trillion in gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) in 2025, 9.65% of the global total

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Norway has a population of 5.6 million people. Its sovereign wealth fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management, holds over $2 trillion in assets — roughly $415,000 per Norwegian citizen — and earned $248 billion in profit in 2025 alone, a 15.1% return across more than 7,200

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China's manufacturing output in 2024 reached $4.66 trillion, more than the entire European continent's $3.61 trillion combined, a continent that spans more than 40 countries. In the treemap accompanying this article, where each cell's area represents output rather than land mass, China occupies a rectangle larger than

Who Really Charges Companies the Most Tax? Every country sets a headline rate of tax that companies pay on their profits — the government's cut before a business can call the money its own. Line up these rates across the world and you get less a map of taxation and more a map of national

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The United States alone is worth $77.95 trillion in listed equity, more than China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom and France combined, which together add up to roughly $60.45 trillion. That single comparison, visible in the treemap accompanying this article where

Why Some Countries Pay So Much More to Borrow Money When a country's central bank sets its main interest rate, it isn't just tweaking mortgages and savings accounts — it's setting the price of borrowing for the whole economy, from government bonds to business loans. A high rate usually means a central bank is fighting

The Countries Spending Way More Than They Earn A budget deficit is simple in principle: a government spends more in a year than it collects in taxes and other revenue, and the gap has to be borrowed or covered some other way. Economists usually measure the size of that gap against GDP — the total