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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China published 932,712 scientific papers in 2023 — more than the entire continent of Europe, which produced 803,654 across 44 countries with centuries of accumulated research tradition. That single comparison, made visible in the treemap accompanying this article where cell area is proportional to paper count rather …

Scientific Output 2023: China Now Produces More Science Than All of Europe Read More »

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China generated 584 TWh of solar electricity in 2023 — more than Europe (282 TWh) and North America (277 TWh) combined. In the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area is proportional to generation rather than land mass, China's block consumes more than a third of the …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China generated 886 terawatt-hours of wind electricity in 2023 — more than all European nations combined, which together produced 583 TWh across more than 30 countries. The treemap accompanying this article makes that comparison concrete: China's cell is not just the largest on the chart, it is …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China generates 9,456 TWh of electricity per year — more than the entire Western Hemisphere combined. North America's 18.2% and South America's 4.3% of global output add up to 22.5%, still less than China's 31.9% alone. The treemap accompanying this article makes that disparity physical: China's block …

Electricity Generation by Country 2023: The World Runs on Three Grids Read More »

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China consumed 47,072 TWh of primary energy in 2023 — more than Africa, South America, and Oceania combined, which together account for 15,113 TWh. That is not a rounding difference; China outconsumed those three continents by a factor of 3.1x. In the treemap accompanying this article, where …

Primary Energy Consumption by Country 2023 Read More »

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The United States has emitted 430 gigatonnes of CO₂ since 1750 — 24.36% of every tonne ever released — while housing roughly 4% of today's global population. In the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area maps to cumulative emissions rather than geography or economic weight, that …

Cumulative CO₂ Emissions by Country (1750–2023) Read More »

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article makes one fact impossible to ignore: China's rectangle is larger than the next four countries combined. At 12.17 gigatonnes — 32.91% of all global CO₂ in 2023 — China's block dwarfs the United States (13.30%), India (8.28%), Russia (4.69%), and Japan (2.67%) …

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