Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → Nigeria recorded 2,675,439 deaths in 2023, ranking it fourth in the world, directly behind the United States. Its median age is approximately 18 years and its crude death rate is 11.74 per 1,000, lower than
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The Countries Where Populations Are Growing — and Shrinking — the Fastest Population growth sounds simple: more births than deaths, and the numbers go up. In practice, it is far messier. War, migration, economic booms, and demographic collapse can swing a country's population by millions within just a few years. The World Bank's latest ranking
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The Countries That Cannot Feed Themselves Without Foreign Help Food is the most basic of necessities, yet for many countries, a striking share of it arrives from abroad. This ranking, compiled by the World Bank, measures food imports as a percentage of a country's total merchandise imports — in other words, of everything a nation
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The Countries Where Women Do Most of the Working Female labour-force participation measures something simple: what share of working-age women are employed or actively looking for work. It doesn't measure pay, job quality, or whether work is a choice — only whether women are counted as part of the paid or market-oriented workforce. On that
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The Countries That Pay Their Lenders Before Anything Else When a government borrows money from abroad, it has to pay that money back in foreign currency, usually dollars. The only way to get that currency is to earn it, mainly by selling things to other countries. The "debt-service ratio" measures how much of that export
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When the Countryside Quietly Empties Out Some countries aren't shrinking overall — they're just hollowing out in the middle. This ranking tracks how fast each country's rural population is growing or shrinking each year, using World Bank data. A sharply negative number means villages and small towns are losing people fast, usually because they're moving
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The Countries Where Health Eats the Biggest Slice of the Economy When economists measure health spending as a share of GDP, they're asking a simple question: out of everything a country produces and earns in a year, how much gets ploughed into hospitals, doctors, medicines and health insurance? It's a measure of national priority and
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Who Gets the Biggest Slice? Ranking 83 Countries by Their Richest 10% Inequality can be measured many ways, but one of the simplest is this: what share of a country's total income goes to the richest 10% of its people? The World Bank tracks exactly this across 83 countries, and the results split the world
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Why Some Countries Can’t Put Their Young People to Work Youth unemployment measures the share of people aged roughly 15 to 24 who want a job and are actively looking for one, but can't find it. It's a different number from overall unemployment, and often a much starker one, because young people are usually the
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Why Some Cities Are Bursting at the Seams While Others Empty Out Every year, the World Bank tracks how fast the urban population of each country is growing — that is, how quickly people are moving into or being born in cities relative to the year before. A country near the top isn't necessarily getting
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