Economy

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

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 China's economy, adjusted for purchasing power, is now roughly 37% larger than the United States' — $44.3 trillion against $32.4 trillion — even though the US remains the world's largest economy when measured

The Countries Outpacing Everyone Else in 2026 Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every year, the International Monetary Fund forecasts how much each country's economy is expected to grow, measured as the change in real GDP — the total value of goods and services a country produces, adjusted so

Where One in Three People Can’t Find a Job Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Unemployment sounds like a simple number: the share of people who want to work, are actively looking, but can't find a job. Yet line up the countries with the highest rates and the picture

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 Want this chart on your wall? Print it at home, or order the museum-quality version. Instant download · £3.99Printed poster · £12.99 On the treemap accompanying this article, India's rectangle is the largest