Which Countries Are Betting the Most on Their Own Future? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → Every year, countries make a choice: spend what they have today, or invest it in something that will pay off tomorrow. Gross fixed capital formation — in plain terms, the share of a
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The Countries Where Most People Still Farm for a Living Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → In much of the world, farming has quietly faded into the background — a shrinking slice of how people earn a living. But in dozens of countries, it remains the dominant way of
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What Share of a Country’s Budget Goes to Soldiers, Not Schools? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → Every government carves up its spending between things like healthcare, education, pensions and defence. This ranking looks at that last slice: the percentage of total government spending that goes to the military,
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Which Country Is Pouring Almost Everything It Earns Into Its Army? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → Military spending as a share of GDP measures how much of a country's total economic output goes towards its armed forces, rather than schools, hospitals, roads or anything else. It's a better
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The Countries Where a Dollar Buys 89,500 of Something Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → 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
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The World’s Best Places to Live, According to the Data Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → 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,
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Why Some Countries Take Nearly Two-Thirds of Your Top Salary — and Others Take None Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → 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
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall? Printed poster — £12.99 · Instant download — £3.99 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
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall? Printed poster — £12.99 · Instant download — £3.99 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
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall? Printed poster — £12.99 · Instant download — £3.99 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
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