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Identity and place
ISO codes, region and subregion, capital, coordinates, land area, whether it is landlocked, UN membership, borders, currency and languages.
The world data
Every country and territory, with a provenance mark on every row. Nothing here is presented as a measurement unless it carries a source.
What is held for each country
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People
Population and its growth, median age, life expectancy, births per woman, urban share.
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Economy
Output and output per head, inflation, unemployment, policy rate, public debt, exports, and the split between farming, industry and services.
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Energy and resources
Primary energy produced and consumed, oil and liquids production, renewable share, emissions per head, water stress and food self sufficiency.
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Capability and state
Research spend, chip fabrication capacity, connectivity, an AI and compute index, military spending, nuclear weapons, a stability index and government type.
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Alignment
Bloc alignment plus membership of sixteen real organisations, from NATO and the EU to OPEC, ASEAN, BRICS and the African Union. Memberships are facts, and the engine uses them.
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Geometry
The outline of every country, the boundaries of about a thousand states and provinces, four and a half thousand counties and districts, four and a half thousand cities and forty four thousand towns with their populations. All of it from public domain or openly licensed sources, named on the map page.
Where the numbers come from
Curated
Macro figures entered by hand for the economies that drive the model. Marked curated in the monitor.
Partial
Population and income entered by hand, the rest patterned from region, income tier and known structure. Marked partial.
Sourced
One click pulls seventeen indicators for every country from the World Bank and stamps each value with its year. Those fields then read as sourced.
What is held for every place
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Country outlines
Every country and territory on file, drawn from Natural Earth and simplified to a size that loads with the page rather than after it. Nothing is skipped and nothing is a dot unless it is genuinely too small to draw.
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States and provinces
About a thousand administrative units one level below the country: states, provinces, prefectures, departments and Eurostat basic regions. Fetched the moment you switch that layer on.
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Counties and districts
Four and a half thousand more, covering every county in the United States and every small region in the European Union. A large file, so it only arrives if you ask for it.
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Cities
Four and a half thousand cities of a hundred thousand people or more, with their populations, drawn more thickly the further you zoom in.
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Towns and villages
Forty four thousand more places, down to five thousand people, drawn only once you have zoomed in far enough for them to mean anything. Fifty four thousand points in all.
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Chokepoints and clusters
Twelve maritime chokepoints and the eight places leading edge semiconductors are actually made, each with a sentence saying why it is on the list.
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Trade ties
A bilateral network between every pair of countries, built from partner size over distance and adjusted for the agreements and frictions on file. It is what every trade lever bites through, what the nine kinds of flow are drawn from, and what the network view lays out.
Live feeds sit beside the model, not inside it
Exchange rates from the European Central Bank. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 and up in the last day from the United States Geological Survey. Humanitarian emergencies currently marked ongoing from ReliefWeb, which is run by UN OCHA. Where the world's English language news is being filed from in the last day, through the GDELT Project. Current conditions in capitals from Open-Meteo. Every one of them is an open source that needs no key, and every one of them is drawn as an overlay you can switch on beside the model rather than inside it, refreshing every five minutes while the page is open. Nothing in a live feed changes a simulation on its own.
The one bridge between the two runs the other way and only when you click it: an event on the map can be translated into a scenario term, which the panel shows you before anything is added. If a feed is unreachable, which is common on shared hosting, the panel says so and the simulator is unaffected.
Any of it can be replaced with yours
An organisation that knows its own sector better than the World Bank does, or that holds a figure nobody publishes, can put that figure in. A CSV of base year corrections goes in through the admin, every row is checked before it is stored, each figure is marked as yours wherever it appears, and every run after the upload starts from it.
The page on bringing your own data lists the thirty fields the upload accepts, the unit of each, the shape of the file and what to supply for which question.
Browse the whole dataset
Sort any column, filter by region or grouping, open any country, download the table.
Open the monitor