Economy

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

The Country Where Money Almost Doesn’t Run Out Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every year, the World Bank tallies how much people around the world actually spend — not what their government spends, not what companies invest, but the money that flows through ordinary households on food, rent,

Which Countries Actually Pollute the Most, Person for Person? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Total emissions tell you which countries burn the most fuel overall — but that mostly just tracks population and industrial size. Divide a country's carbon dioxide emissions by its number of people, and a

The Countries Where Money Is Growing Fastest — and Where It’s Vanishing Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every year, economists measure how much a country's income grows per person, which strips out population changes so you can see whether the average person is actually getting richer, not just

The Places Where Being a Man Is the Biggest Risk Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every country has an official measure of how likely a 15-year-old boy is to reach his 60th birthday. Flip it around, and it becomes a measure of how many men, out of every