Economy

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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