Where the numbers come from

Annual figures for every economy, region and income group come from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators. Market prices come from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (oil and gas), the World Bank’s commodity price data (gold), the Federal Reserve (the US 10-year yield and exchange rates) and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (US consumer prices). For this release they were collected through DataHub’s open-data copies of those sources, then checked as described below.

How figures are calculated

Most figures are shown exactly as published. These are worked out on this site:

Current account, foreign direct investment and remittances, % of GDP
value in US dollars ÷ GDP in US dollars × 100, for the same year

Currency change against the US dollar
(last year’s average rate ÷ this year’s average rate − 1) × 100, with rates in local currency per dollar. A negative number means the currency weakened. For euro-area members, rates from before they joined are converted to euros at the official fixed conversion rates, so their series run smoothly. Any year in which a currency changes unit, such as a redenomination or a switch to the US dollar, is left blank.

US inflation, monthly
consumer price index this month ÷ the same month a year earlier − 1. October 2025 is blank because the source data has no index for that month.

GDP is shown in US dollars at current prices and population in millions. World and regional figures are the World Bank’s own aggregates. For growth, the World Bank weights economies by GDP at market exchange rates. The IMF’s headline world growth uses purchasing-power (PPP) weights instead, which give fast-growing emerging economies more weight, so its figure is usually higher.

Rounding, gaps and older figures

Percentages are stored to two decimal places and shown to one. Missing years are left blank, never estimated. There are two labelled exceptions: tables can show a figure up to two years older, marked with a small year such as ’24, and survey-based poverty and inequality figures use each economy’s latest survey from the previous five years on maps, rankings and Explore.

Colours

Maps and tables group values into seven bands chosen for each indicator. Blue means growth, a surplus or a healthy reading; red means contraction, a deficit or strain; for amounts such as GDP, darker means larger. The bands are shown in each map’s legend.

Country notes

Fiscal years. The World Bank records national accounts for these economies by fiscal year rather than calendar year:

Older growth figures. Economies of 1 million people or more whose latest World Bank growth figure is three or more years old (latest year in brackets):

Jobs figures. Unemployment and labour-force figures are ILO modelled estimates. They make countries comparable but can differ from national surveys. Where most work is informal, unemployment says less about hardship than it does elsewhere.

Government debt covers the central government only, and only about 40 economies report it in recent years.

Automated checks for this release

The values furthest outside their expected range:

How to cite

Please credit the original sources too. World Bank data is licensed under CC BY 4.0, which requires attribution.

Download everything

Every annual value on this site, in one CSV file with one row per economy, indicator and year.

Downloads work in Claude and on the site’s own web address.

Update log

• Version 1.2, 22 October 2026Added an email address to the Contact page. Prepared the site for its own web address, with a summary page for every economy, a sitemap for search engines, ordinary downloads outside Claude and an automatic daily data update.
• Version 1.1, 22 October 2026Added Explore, an animated bubble chart with trend lines; poverty, inequality, youth unemployment, labour-force and debt-service figures; log and trimmed chart scales; chart images and data tables; links to share any view; site search; country notes; and methods, contact and privacy pages. Redesigned the home page with a price ticker, a dot map of world growth and data insights.
• Version 1.0, 21 October 2026First release: 217 economies and 15 groups, 28 indicators from 1960 to 2025, market prices, a world map, rankings and comparisons.