Drag the map to bring any country into the circle. Lock up to 5 countries with the button above the circle (or press L); the country in the circle shows as a dashed line.
Period1926 – 2026
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Each dot is a country, sized by population. Groups use Gapminder's income levels for that year and its 2008 classification of each country's largest religion. These numbers show how measures move together across countries, not what causes what.
US states
Tap a state to add it to the comparison chart below (up to 5). FBI Uniform Crime Reporting, per 100,000 people.
Charts:
Centre country as a table
How to read the circle
Distance from the centre is age, the same on every arm: rings mark ages 20, 40, 60 and 80, the outer ring 100+. Every bar is one 5-year age group, all the same width.
Population (upper left): each group's share of the whole population. Deaths (upper right): each group's share of all deaths in the year, not a risk of dying; tap the title for the death rate per 1,000 people of that age. Births (down): the UN's share of fertility by mother's age 10–54, sum 100%. Men face up, women face down; dotted lines are the value scale; ◆ marks the average or median age. The centre number is children per woman.
Income and housing. GDP per person measures purchasing power: what the average output per person buys at local prices, in 2021 international dollars. Income per day is the average household income or spending per person from surveys (Gapminder fills gaps between surveys). Gini runs from 0 (everyone earns the same) to 100. Home price to income compares house prices with disposable income per person, 2015 = 100; above 100 means a home costs more years of income than in 2015. It covers about 50 OECD and partner countries. Years before about 1950 and the latest year or two are estimates and forecasts in these series.
Crime. Only homicide is shown: it is the one crime measure published for most countries and counted in a comparable way (UN Office on Drugs and Crime). Other offences exist only for some regions and are recorded too differently to compare. Countries without a homicide figure in the last 5 years show as "no data". For US states the FBI's murder rate is shown (1960–2019).
Healthcare. The UHC index (WHO, 0–100) measures how well essential health services cover the population: maternal and child care, infectious and chronic diseases, and service capacity. Doctors, hospital beds and spending show resources. Infant and maternal mortality show outcomes, and out-of-pocket share shows how much people pay themselves.
Religion is Gapminder's 2008 classification of each country's largest religion (Christian, Muslim, Eastern religions); countries without a classification are shown as mixed / other. It is one label per country, not the share of believers, and it does not change over time.
1950–2023 UN estimates, 2024–2026 UN projections (the newest UN edition, World Population Prospects 2024; the next edition is expected in 2026). 1926–1949 is our reconstruction (off by default, always hatched). Today's borders throughout. Realms mode is pure fiction for fun and never mixes with the real data.
Sources
United Nations, DESA, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024. CC BY 3.0 IGO. Age-group aggregation and visualization by Insight42.
Reconstruction inputs, GDP per person (PPP, constant 2021 international $), average daily income, Gini, income levels and the 2008 largest-religion classification: based on free material from GAPMINDER.ORG, CC-BY LICENSE.
House price-to-income ratio: OECD, Analytical house price indicators, CC BY 4.0.
Homicide (UNODC), healthcare coverage, health spending, doctors, hospital beds, maternal mortality, vaccination and out-of-pocket spending (WHO), infant mortality (UN IGME): World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0.
US state murder rates: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (public domain), compiled by the CORGIS project. State shapes: US Census Bureau (public domain).
Map made with Natural Earth (public domain). Boundaries imply no position on disputed territories. Software licences.
Realms: names from ancient myths and legends (public domain). Invented numbers and jokes by Insight42; no affiliation with any film studio, publisher or franchise.
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