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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 In the treemap accompanying this article, India's rectangle is larger than Germany's, the United Kingdom's, and France's individually, even though India's economy remains smaller than Germany's on standard GDP measures. India recorded $1.37

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 Norway has a population of 5.6 million people. Its sovereign wealth fund, managed by Norges Bank Investment Management, holds over $2 trillion in assets — roughly $415,000 per Norwegian citizen — and earned

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 China's manufacturing output in 2024 reached $4.66 trillion, more than the entire European continent's $3.61 trillion combined, a continent that spans more than 40 countries. In the treemap accompanying this article, where each

Who Really Charges Companies the Most Tax? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Every country sets a headline rate of tax that companies pay on their profits — the government's cut before a business can call the money its own. Line up these rates across the world and you

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Want this on your wall?  Printed poster — £12.99  ·  Instant download — £3.99 The United States alone is worth $77.95 trillion in listed equity, more than China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, South Korea, Canada, the United Kingdom and France combined, which together add up to

Why Some Countries Pay So Much More to Borrow Money Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → When a country's central bank sets its main interest rate, it isn't just tweaking mortgages and savings accounts — it's setting the price of borrowing for the whole economy, from government bonds to

The Countries Spending Way More Than They Earn Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → A budget deficit is simple in principle: a government spends more in a year than it collects in taxes and other revenue, and the gap has to be borrowed or covered some other way. Economists

Who’s Really Drowning in Debt? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Debt-to-GDP measures how much a country owes compared with everything its economy produces in a year. It's the standard yardstick for judging whether a government's borrowing is manageable or spiralling — though, as this ranking shows, a high

The Countries Where Filling Up Hurts the Most Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → Petrol prices vary wildly around the world, and the gap has nothing to do with how much oil a country actually produces. Some of the world's biggest oil producers sell petrol for pennies a litre,

Which Country Is Secretly the Wealthiest on Earth? Prints and downloads of Everything Econ visualisations:  Browse the print shop → When economists want to compare how rich countries are, they don't just look at the total size of an economy — a big population can make a country's economy huge even if most people are