Economy

The Other Tax on Your Pay That Never Shows Up in Take-Home Pay When people talk about how much tax they pay, they usually mean income tax. But in most countries, there's a second, quieter deduction sitting alongside it: social contributions. These are payments — split between employers and employees — that fund pensions, healthcare,

The Small Islands and Farm States That Live and Die by What They Grow Most countries sell a mix of things abroad — machinery, oil, services, minerals, food. But for a surprising number of nations, food exports aren't just one line item on the balance sheet; they're nearly the whole story. This ranking looks at

The Countries That Bet Big on the Classroom Governments face constant trade-offs when deciding where to put public money, and education is one of the biggest line items on any national budget. This ranking looks at how much each country spends on public education as a share of its entire economy (its GDP) — a

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Peru and Chile together produced about 8.29 million tonnes of fish in 2024, more than the United States, Canada and Mexico combined, whose total reaches 7.91 million tonnes. Two South American countries, on a treemap

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → The United States alone accounts for 46.06% of global arms exports, more than the combined total of the next nine largest exporters on the list. On the treemap accompanying this article, where cell size reflects

The Countries Where a Third of the Economy Comes From Abroad Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every year, migrant workers around the world send money home to their families — a payment known as a remittance. For most countries, these transfers are a small, welcome top-up to the

Where in the World Is It Hardest to Actually Find Work? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Unemployment sounds like a simple number: the share of people who want a job but don't have one. But when you line up 175 countries side by side, the gap between the

Europe’s Wine Belt: Where the World Really Drinks Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Global drinking habits vary enormously, and one of the clearest ways to see it is by measuring how much pure alcohol the average adult in a country drinks each year, converted into litres. The WHO

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 Ireland carried 192.5 million air passengers in 2023, more than India (180.4M) and Japan (120.3M), despite having a population of roughly 5 million against India's 1.4 billion and Japan's 125 million. The treemap

The Countries Where an Extra Three Decades of Life Comes as Standard Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Life expectancy tells you how long a baby born today could expect to live if current health and mortality patterns held steady throughout their life. It's one of the simplest ways