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 …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article assigns cell area by population, not by geography — and the distortion is immediate. India's rectangle is nearly twice the size of the United States', yet India appears as a roughly equal-sized country on any political map. India holds 513 million urban …
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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. China alone contains more people aged 65 and over than the entire European continent. China's elderly population stood at 206.6 million in 2024 — 25% of the global total of 825.7 million — while all of Europe combined accounted for 152.6 million, or 18.5%. That comparison, made …
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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 …
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 …
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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 …
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 …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Nigeria produced roughly 7.6 million births in 2025 — more than the entire continent of Europe, which recorded approximately 6.2 million across dozens of countries with a combined population nearly three times larger. That single comparison, made visible in the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area …
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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%) …
Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article resizes every country by what it actually buys from the world — and the distortion is immediate. The United States occupies nearly 14% of the entire chart. That single visual fact — one country absorbing $3.36 trillion of the world's $24.36 trillion …
