Economy

Which Countries Still Run on Factories? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Manufacturing used to be the engine of almost every rich nation. Today, most wealthy economies have shifted towards services — banking, tourism, software — and let their factory floors quietly shrink. But some countries still make things

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 Germany's rectangle in the treemap sits fractionally larger than America's — by roughly $100 million across a combined total of more than $55 billion. That visual near-tie, barely distinguishable to the eye, marks

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 China generated 10,583 TWh of electricity in 2025, accounting for 35.75% of all electricity produced on Earth. Add up the United States (4,520 TWh), India (2,082 TWh), Russia (1,193 TWh), and Japan (1,030

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 The treemap accompanying this article makes one fact impossible to ignore before you read a single label: one cell occupies roughly three-fifths of the entire chart. That cell is China, which held 44

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 The treemap accompanying this article makes the central fact of global container shipping impossible to ignore: China's rectangle occupies roughly a third of the entire chart, and the gap between it and the

Which Countries Have the World’s Strongest Currencies? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Exchange rates tell you how far a unit of one country's money goes when converted into US dollars. A rate above 1.00 means a single unit of that currency buys more than one dollar — a

The Countries Where the Most — and Fewest — Babies Are Born Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every year, the World Bank counts how many babies are born for every 1,000 people living in a country. That single number, known as the crude birth rate, reveals a great

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

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

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,