Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China generated 886 terawatt-hours of wind electricity in 2023 — more than all European nations combined, which together produced 583 TWh across more than 30 countries. The treemap accompanying this article makes that comparison concrete: China's cell is not just the largest on the chart, it is …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China generates 9,456 TWh of electricity per year — more than the entire Western Hemisphere combined. North America's 18.2% and South America's 4.3% of global output add up to 22.5%, still less than China's 31.9% alone. The treemap accompanying this article makes that disparity physical: China's block …
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China consumed 47,072 TWh of primary energy in 2023 — more than Africa, South America, and Oceania combined, which together account for 15,113 TWh. That is not a rounding difference; China outconsumed those three continents by a factor of 3.1x. In the treemap accompanying this article, where …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The United States has emitted 430 gigatonnes of CO₂ since 1750 — 24.36% of every tonne ever released — while housing roughly 4% of today's global population. In the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area maps to cumulative emissions rather than geography or economic weight, that …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article makes one fact impossible to ignore: China's rectangle is larger than the next four countries combined. At 12.17 gigatonnes — 32.91% of all global CO₂ in 2023 — China's block dwarfs the United States (13.30%), India (8.28%), Russia (4.69%), and Japan (2.67%) …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article resizes every country by what it actually buys from the world — and the distortion is immediate. The United States occupies nearly 14% of the entire chart. That single visual fact — one country absorbing $3.36 trillion of the world's $24.36 trillion …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article resizes every country by its merchandise export value, not its land area. China occupies roughly one-seventh of the entire chart. The African continent — 54 countries — appears smaller than the Netherlands, a nation of 18 million people. That visual distortion is …
Every economy drawn to scale by its share of 2026 GDP. Source: International Monetary Fund. The treemap accompanying this article makes the same point a political map cannot: just five countries — the United States, China, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom — occupy more than half the entire visual field. That is not a …
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