Economy

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

Who Really Charges Companies the Most Tax? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every country sets a headline rate of tax that companies pay on their profits — the government's cut before a business can call the money its own. Line up these rates across the world and you

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 The United States alone is worth $77.95 trillion in listed equity, more than China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom and France combined, which together add up to

Why Some Countries Pay So Much More to Borrow Money Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → When a country's central bank sets its main interest rate, it isn't just tweaking mortgages and savings accounts — it's setting the price of borrowing for the whole economy, from government bonds to

The Countries Spending Way More Than They Earn Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → A budget deficit is simple in principle: a government spends more in a year than it collects in taxes and other revenue, and the gap has to be borrowed or covered some other way. Economists

Which Countries Are Drowning in Government Debt? Every government borrows money — to build roads, pay doctors, fund armies, or simply keep the lights on. But how much is too much? One widely used measure is the debt-to-GDP ratio: the size of a government's total debt compared to the size of its economy. Think of

The Countries Where Filling Up Hurts the Most Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Petrol prices vary wildly around the world, and the gap has nothing to do with how much oil a country actually produces. Some of the world's biggest oil producers sell petrol for pennies a litre,

Which Country Is Secretly the Wealthiest on Earth? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → When economists want to compare how rich countries are, they don't just look at the total size of an economy — a big population can make a country's economy huge even if most people are

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 India's population aged 15 to 64 reached 994.7 million in 2025, overtaking China's 987.4 million for the first time on record. Yet on the treemap accompanying this article, sized by actual labour force

Which Countries Sell More to the World Than They Buy? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every year, economists tally up what a country sells to the rest of the world against what it buys — exports of goods and services minus imports, plus a few other cross-border flows