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Prosperity Atlas: how Germany compares with the EU, the G20 and Switzerland since 1996

We combined World Bank, Eurostat, OECD and IMF data with national statistics offices, UBS, the Bundesbank and the German pension reports into one country-year matrix: 44 countries, 30 years, 17 indicators. Every chart shows the values and the change per year, with the German governments from Kohl to Merz marked.

44 countries · 30 years · 17 indicators · 10 governments
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What you can explore

One circle, one century, every country

01

The map is the country picker

Click up to eight countries on the map of Europe or the world; every chart, ranking and heatmap follows. Germany and the EU-27 average are always shown.

02

Value and growth, every year

Each indicator shows its level as a line and the yearly change as bars, in percent or percentage points, with the spread of all countries behind it.

03

Facts, models and gaps kept apart

Sourced values, own calculations and scenario models are labelled. Missing years stay empty instead of being filled in.

real GDP growth in Germany 1996–2025 (EU-27: +59.6%)
+39.5%
Germany's EU rank for real GDP growth
25 of 27
home ownership in Germany 2025, lowest in the EU
47.2%
income tax and social contributions of an average earner (EU-27: 31.4%)
37.0%

The AI use case

How we built it

We pulled the official series first and checked every transfer against a checksum before any chart used it.

  1. Gather

    World Bank, Eurostat, OECD and IMF series for 44 countries, home-ownership figures from 14 national statistics offices, plus the UBS wealth reports, the Bundesbank household survey and the German pension reports.

  2. Verify

    Every series came in by API and was checked with a checksum. Control values for Germany were fetched again and matched exactly.

  3. Model

    Two scenarios use real market data: half the income tax invested in the MSCI World, and 20 years of pension contributions invested in gold.

  4. Visualise

    Map selector, line and bar charts, rankings and a heatmap. Every chart can be maximised and has an info button that explains it.

Sources and licences

World Bank — World Development Indicators (GDP, growth, consumption per head)

Eurostat — taxes and social contributions, wage deductions, home ownership, household financial wealth, pensions, prices

OECD — Revenue Statistics and Taxing Wages (income tax and social contributions); IMF WoRLD and GFS for India, Russia, Saudi Arabia

National housing surveys and censuses for home ownership outside the EU (US Census Bureau, Statistics Canada, ABS, IBGE, Statistics Japan and others)

UBS — Global Wealth Report 2026 and Global Wealth Databook 2023

Deutsche Bundesbank — Private Households and their Finances (PHF) 2010–2023

German Federal Government — pension insurance reports 2022–2025

MSCI World Net Return EUR and gold prices in EUR (model calculations)

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