Economy

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 …

Migrant Population 2024: The Per-Capita Shock Read More »

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 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, …

Nuclear Warheads by Country 2026 Read More »

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China published 932,712 scientific papers in 2023 — more than the entire continent of Europe, which produced 803,654 across 44 countries with centuries of accumulated research tradition. That single comparison, made visible in the treemap accompanying this article where cell area is proportional to paper count rather …

Scientific Output 2023: China Now Produces More Science Than All of Europe Read More »

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China generated 584 TWh of solar electricity in 2023 — more than Europe (282 TWh) and North America (277 TWh) combined. In the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area is proportional to generation rather than land mass, China's block consumes more than a third of the …

Solar Electricity Generation by Country 2023 Read More »

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 …

Wind Electricity Generation by Country 2023 Read More »

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 …

Electricity Generation by Country 2023: The World Runs on Three Grids Read More »

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 …

Primary Energy Consumption by Country 2023 Read More »

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 …

Cumulative CO₂ Emissions by Country (1750–2023) Read More »