Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. On the treemap accompanying this article, India's rectangle is the largest on the page at roughly 3.07 million personnel, ahead of China's 2.54 million. Most people asked to name the world's biggest army would say China. Both answers are defensible, and the reason they conflict is a …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China's rectangle on the treemap holds 1.04 billion internet users. India's, immediately next to it, holds 696.6 million. Together the two countries account for 36.5% of everyone online on Earth in 2021, a larger combined total than Africa, Europe and South America put together. Every other block …
Internet Users by Country 2021: The China-India Gap That Refuses to Close Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Ukraine now produces more refugees than Syria, a country whose civil war has run for over a decade. The treemap accompanying this article sizes each country by its refugee count rather than its land mass, and Ukraine's cell, at 5.22 million people, 18.6% of the global 28.1 …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The United States' billionaires are worth $8.42 trillion combined, more than the billionaire fortunes of China, India, Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Canada, Hong Kong and Spain put together at $7.13 trillion. That comparison is visible in the treemap accompanying this article, where each country's cell is sized …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The United States holds 41.56% of the world's tracked millionaires, a single country outweighing Europe's 26.7% share and Asia's 23.3% share combined. The treemap accompanying this article sizes each country by its millionaire count rather than its landmass, and the American rectangle swallows nearly half the frame. …
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Chad — with a GDP per capita of roughly $917 — hosts 1.28 million refugees. Germany, with a GDP per capita roughly 60 times larger, hosts 2.75 million. Those two numbers sit adjacent in the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area is proportional to refugee population …
Refugees by Host Country 2024: The Myth of the Rich World’s Burden Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article makes one fact immediately disorienting: China's rectangle is larger than all of Europe, all of Africa, and all of the Americas combined. China alone accounts for 30.82% of global agricultural output — nearly one-third of everything the world grows — and when …
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Ireland, a country of five million people, ranks third in the world for air passengers carried in 2023, ahead of India with 1.4 billion. The World Bank figure assigns Ireland 192.5 million passengers against India's 180.4 million — a comparison that makes no geographic or demographic sense …
Air Travel 2023: The Ireland Illusion and What the Rankings Actually Measure Read More »
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Russia's forest block in the treemap accompanying this article is so large it distorts everything around it. At 8.15 million square kilometres — 20.2% of all forest on Earth — Russia's taiga alone exceeds the combined forest area of Canada, the United States, and China. Five countries …
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The United States holds 8,134 tonnes of gold — nearly as much as Germany, Italy, and France combined — yet has neither bought nor sold a significant quantity in over 40 years. That frozen dominance, made immediately visible in the treemap accompanying this article where cell area …
Official Gold Reserves: Why Central Banks Are Hoarding Gold at Record Rates Read More »
