When Getting a Degree Doesn’t Get You a Job Across much of the world, going to university is supposed to be a route into stable, well-paid work. But in a striking number of countries, graduates are more likely to be sitting at home unemployed than the people around them who never finished school. This metric,
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Debt Piles: Which Economies Have Borrowed the Most Against What They Earn? Some countries run on debt the way a car runs on petrol — borrowed money fuels businesses, mortgages and government spending, and as long as the economy keeps growing, the debt gets paid down along the way. This ranking compares total debt (households,
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The Other Tax on Your Pay That Never Shows Up in Take-Home Pay When people talk about how much tax they pay, they usually mean income tax. But in most countries, there's a second, quieter deduction sitting alongside it: social contributions. These are payments — split between employers and employees — that fund pensions, healthcare,
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The Small Islands and Farm States That Live and Die by What They Grow Most countries sell a mix of things abroad — machinery, oil, services, minerals, food. But for a surprising number of nations, food exports aren't just one line item on the balance sheet; they're nearly the whole story. This ranking looks at
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The Countries That Bet Big on the Classroom Governments face constant trade-offs when deciding where to put public money, and education is one of the biggest line items on any national budget. This ranking looks at how much each country spends on public education as a share of its entire economy (its GDP) — a
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The Country Where One City Is the Whole Story Imagine if nearly everyone who lived in a city lived in the same city. That's what this measure captures: how much of a country's urban population is concentrated in its single largest city, rather than spread across a network of regional centres. A high score means
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → Peru and Chile together produced about 8.29 million tonnes of fish in 2024, more than the United States, Canada and Mexico combined, whose total reaches 7.91 million tonnes. Two South American countries, on a treemap
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → The United States alone accounts for 46.06% of global arms exports, more than the combined total of the next nine largest exporters on the list. On the treemap accompanying this article, where cell size reflects
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The Countries Where a Third of the Economy Comes From Abroad Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → Every year, migrant workers around the world send money home to their families — a payment known as a remittance. For most countries, these transfers are a small, welcome top-up to the
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Where in the World Is It Hardest to Actually Find Work? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations: Browse the print shop → Unemployment sounds like a simple number: the share of people who want a job but don't have one. But when you line up 175 countries side by side, the gap between the
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